TY - JOUR
T1 - Why I Should Still Offset Rather Than Do More Good
AU - Maheshwari, Kritika
N1 - Funding Information:
I’d like to thank Orri Stefansson, Andreas T. Schmidt, and Sven Nyholm for their helpful written feedback on initial draft of this paper. I’m also thankful to Crystel Hajjar and Conrad Bakka for discussion on the topic.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Stefansson (forthcoming) argues that by emitting and offsetting, we fail to fulfil our justice-based duty to avoid harm owed to specific individuals. In this paper, I explore a case where offsetting fails to prevent some but not all risks of harms that our emissions impose on them. By drawing on a distinction between general and specific duties not to (risk) harm, I argue that if by emitting and offsetting, we satisfy some (if not all) of our specific duties we owe others, then this gives us stronger moral reasons to offset than give to charities that do good more effectively.
AB - Stefansson (forthcoming) argues that by emitting and offsetting, we fail to fulfil our justice-based duty to avoid harm owed to specific individuals. In this paper, I explore a case where offsetting fails to prevent some but not all risks of harms that our emissions impose on them. By drawing on a distinction between general and specific duties not to (risk) harm, I argue that if by emitting and offsetting, we satisfy some (if not all) of our specific duties we owe others, then this gives us stronger moral reasons to offset than give to charities that do good more effectively.
KW - climate change
KW - duties
KW - John Broome
KW - offsetting
KW - risk
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142183858&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21550085.2022.2104091
DO - 10.1080/21550085.2022.2104091
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
AN - SCOPUS:85142183858
SN - 2155-0085
VL - 25
SP - 249
EP - 252
JO - Ethics, Policy and Environment
JF - Ethics, Policy and Environment
IS - 3
ER -