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    Current generations do have duties of climate justice to ... — Carmelics
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    Current generations do have duties of climate justice to future people, even given the Non-Identity Problem

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    • 1.Rawlsian just savings principles require each generation to preserve gains of culture and maintain just institutions for successors.
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    • 2.Future people, as members of the cooperative scheme of society across time, hold valid claims under the original position's veil of ignorance.
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    • 3.Climate destabilization undermines the basic structural conditions that Rawlsian justice requires be preserved across generations.
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    • 1.Parfit's own response to Non-Identity invokes an impersonal 'wide' consequentialist principle: outcomes are worse if they contain less welfare, regardless of victim identity.
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    • 2.Rights-based accounts grounded in capabilities (Sen, Nussbaum) attach entitlements to persons qua future persons, not to counterfactual comparisons with non-existence.
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    • 3.Deliberately imposing foreseeable severe harm on whomever will exist constitutes a wrong under virtually any non-person-affecting framework, satisfying the duty's basis independently.
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    • 1.Many theories of justice are not committed to a narrow person-affecting point of view
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    • 2.The Non-Identity Problem only undermines duties to future people if justice requires a narrow person-affecting framework
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    • 3.Sufficientarian, egalitarian, prioritarian, and other accounts of justice do not require that an act is unjust only if it makes someone worse off than they would otherwise have been
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    This is not the place to discuss the Non Identity Problem in depth (see entry on nonidentity problem). It is, however, perhaps worth noting that many are not persuaded that this argument shows that current generations lack duties of (climate) justice to future people. The nub of the issue is whether theories of justice are committed to a “narrow person-affecting” point of view (Parfit 1984: 393–395). Broome appears to assume that they are. However, many others maintain that justice to future g
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