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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change

Content: Arguments against a given approach should concern the content of the theory considered, not its conceptual assumptions. Assumptions able to exclude from the outset a given substantive solution should be avoided. Assuming that climate change does never involve individual responsibilities rules out consequentialism from the realm of the options that can be employed in the morality of climate change. This consequence of the assumption may well provide an argument against it, in the light of the considerations contained in the 5  See   G. Pellegrino – Individual Responsibility for Climate Change f3  previous paragraph. However, here I'll not pursue this line of argument. I'll rather start from the idea that the issue of our individual responsibility for climate change needs further examination. But I cannot deny that the source of my concerns in this paper lies in my preference for a consequentialist approach to the morality of climate change. 3. This paper might be read as running contrary to the idea that abatement of emissions is a collective action and a matter of collective responsibility. This would be a wrong reading.