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    Climate justice frameworks should focus on protecting and... — Carmelics
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    Climate justice frameworks should focus on protecting and promoting human interests rather than on distributing emissions.

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    • 1.Greenhouse gas emissions arise primarily from activities that serve important human interests such as heating, cooling, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture.
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    • 2.The morally relevant object of concern is the satisfaction of important human interests, not emissions as such.
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    • 3.Focusing on emissions rather than the underlying interests conflates a by-product with what actually carries moral weight.
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    • 1.Emissions rights function as tradeable entitlements that determine who bears the burdens of decarbonization, making their distribution irreducibly a matter of justice.
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    • 2.Rawls's difference principle requires that the structure of basic institutions—including atmospheric access—be evaluated independently of the interests they contingently serve.
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    • 3.Collapsing distributive questions into interest-satisfaction obscures how atmospheric capacity, like property, constitutes a prior scheme of cooperation requiring just terms.
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    • 1.Henry Shue's foundational distinction between subsistence and luxury emissions shows that the moral weight of an emission derives from its type, not merely the interest behind it.
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    • 2.Two emissions serving equally 'important' interests may differ radically in replaceability, making interest-satisfaction an insufficient basis for allocation without reference to emission-level facts.
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    Second, it is worth asking why we should care about emissions at all. In themselves they do not matter to the people who generate them or who enjoy the goods and services whose production involves greenhouse gas emissions. They matter because they are a by-product of activities that people engage in to serve important human interests. More specifically they largely arise because of energy use (for building, heating, cooling, transporting, manufacturing, lighting and so on) and because of agricul
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