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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
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Individual Responsibility for Climate Change

Content: Second, I'll challenge the standard story, by claiming that individuals have full responsibility for climate change, and that the common-sense conception of moral responsibility can be extended to increasing-temperatures conducts (§ 4). This claim will rely on a thicker or more moralized conception of responsibility. As I shall claim in § 1,  The main motivations behind this attempt are the following ones. First,  obscure view of causality and wrong view of responsibility  moral shortcomings of collective responsibility – non-democratic, …. Three preliminary caveats might be helpful. 1. Absence of individual responsibility for climate changes is often cited as a ground to explain the motivational difficulty of the morality of climate change. Here is a statement of this view: ' Because we tend not to see climate change as a moral problem, it does not motivate us to act with the urgency characteristic of our responses to moral challenges. '4 The kind of conduct needed to abate emissions and to mitigate future climate changes runs contrary to entrenched human motivations.