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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change

Content: Here, I won't deny this explanation. I won't deny the fact that climate change may appear as somewhat disconnected from individual action. Rather, I am going to deny that climate change is truly disconnected from individual agency. The common sense perception of our not being responsible of long-distance effects may well be the right explanation of the widespread motivational resistance to the demands of the morality of climate change. However, this perception is mistaken, and current motivations running contrary to the morality of climate change should be revised. 2. The concern for individual responsibility underlying this paper gets its point from a specific conception of what grounds our obligations. I am here assuming that we have obligations to act only if, and in so far as, our action makes some difference to the state of the world. In this kind of views, any action having no influence at all in producing or preventing some state of affairs is morally indifferent. Differently put, only the moral quality of states of affairs knowingly and reliably produced through action provides a standard of judgement for human conduct.