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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change

Content: 2  Sinnott-Armstrong 2010: 337; see also ibid.: 339. 3  See Jamieson 2009, §§ 2-5. 4  Jamieson 2007: 477. G. Pellegrino – Individual Responsibility for Climate Change f2  failure may cause our resistance to substantial changes of our habits and explain our impervious reactions to any appeal to the moral salience of what we produce through our consumption styles. A ground of this lukewarm moral reaction to the alleged harm we are causing to distant and future people may be the fact that we are not able to see that we are causing those harms in a direct way through our individual action. The claim that climate change is not a matter of individual responsibility may explain motivational resistance to appeals to direct action in this field.