Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action

✍ Scribed by Sarah Kenehan, Corey Katz

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection helps bridge the divide between the work of normative theorists and climate action (or inaction). In this volume, contributors reflect on how we should understand the relationship between theorizing about climate justice, the principles of justice that result, and feasibility constraints on climate action. Some explore the role of theorists or the usefulness of their theories for guiding policymaking and action on climate change, while others discuss concerns with who is establishing what the feasibility constraints are and how they are doing so. Others identify and discuss psychological feasibility constraints on just climate action, or draw important parallels and distinctions between the feasibility constraints that were tackled in order to address the COVID-19 pandemic and those that need to be tackled in order to respond to global climate change.

The international and interdisciplinary contributors offer a range of approaches and frameworks, to re-think the ways that concerns of justice should be considered on the policy level, speaking to students, research scholars, activists, and policymakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
I. Background
II. Climate Justice and Global Climate Negotiations
III. Feasibility
IV. Thematic Overview
References
Chapter 1: Feasibility and Climate Justice
I. Background
II. How Changes since 2010 Affect Feasibility
III. Arguments against Feasibility Restrictions
IV. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Utopia, Feasibility, and the Need for Interpretive and Clinical Climate Ethics
I. Problems with the Utopian Approach
II. Two Alternative Approaches to Climate Ethics
III. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Falling on Your Own Feasibility Sword? Challenges for Climate Policy Based on “Simple Self-Interest”
I. Context
II. Ambition
III. Self-Interest
IV. Methodology
V. Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Climate Justice, Feasibility Constraints, and the Role of Political Philosophy
I. The Climate Crisis
II. An Initial Case for Radical Requirements of Climate Justice
III. Feasibility Objections
IV. Feasibility Constraints on the Content of Justice and Feasibility Constraints on Theorizing in Urgent Circumstances
V. The Role of Ambitious Theorizing in Urgent Circumstances
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Is a Just Climate Policy Feasible?
I. Feasibility Constraints and Climate Action
II. Feasibility Constraints on Carbon Pricing
III. Feasibility versus Justice?
IV. Feasibility Constraints and Ideal Theory
V. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6: The “Pathway Problem,” Probabilistic Feasibility, and Non-Ideal Climate Justice
I. Non-Ideal Theory, the “Pathway Problem,” and Climate Justice
II. The Pathway Problem in a Climate-Changing Future: A Critique
III. Defending the Pathway
IV. Departing the Pathway
V. Conclusion: A Warning and an Opportunity
Notes
References
Chapter 7: Making the Great Climate Transition: Between Justice and Feasibility
I. Feasibility: Its Kinds and Functions
II. Feasibility, Power, and Privilege
III. Fighting Injustice First, while not Losing Sight of the Overall Goal
IV. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8: Is Climate Justice Feasible? A Psychological Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving a Just Climate Regime
I. Psychological Barriers to Just Climate Change Action
II. Additional Considerations: Efficacy, Capitulation, and Urgency
III. Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Climate Justice and Feasibility Considerations
IV. Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 9: Climate Change, Individual Preferences, and Procrastination
I. Intertemporal Preference Reversal
II. Intransitive Preferences
III. Overcoming Climate Change Procrastination
IV. Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 10: COVID Pandemic and Climate Change: An Essay on Soft Constraints and Global Risks
I. Hard Constraints and Soft Constraints
II. Mitigation and Adaptation Goals
III. Structural Soft Constraints and the System of States
IV. Proximity Constraints and the Claims of Future People
V. Global Risks in a Post-Pandemic World
Note
References
Index
About the Contributors