If two people enjoy an equally fair standard of living but one uses fossil fuels and the other solar energy, there is no injustice to the lower-emitting person, because the person still enjoys the fair distribution of goods.
Power generated directly from the sun's rays, considered a renewable and cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.
fair distribution of goods(Used as a simplifying assumption to isolate the question of whether differential emissions levels are independently unjust.)
For purposes of the argument, stipulated as an equal standard of living across persons.
injustice(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
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