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    The distribution of greenhouse gas emissions is not itsel... — Carmelics
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    The distribution of greenhouse gas emissions is not itself what matters from the point of view of justice.

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    • 1.Greenhouse gas emissions do not matter in themselves to those who generate them or benefit from the goods and services that produce them.
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    • 2.Emissions matter only because they are a by-product of activities that serve important human interests (energy use, agriculture, land use).
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    • 3.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.
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    • 1.Emissions constitute appropriation of a finite atmospheric commons, making their distribution a matter of distributive justice independent of welfare outcomes.
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    • 2.Henry Shue's foundational work on subsistence emissions establishes that the right to emit is itself a morally significant entitlement, not merely derivative of goods produced.
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    • 3.A just shares framework (Caney, Shue) requires that each person's fair portion of atmospheric absorptive capacity be respected, regardless of whether welfare parity is achieved through other means.
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    • 1.Procedural justice traditions (Rawls, Scanlon) hold that how a benefit is produced and distributed matters morally, not only whether outcomes are equal.
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    • 2.An agent who achieves a fair welfare level by disproportionately consuming a shared resource wrongs others by foreclosing their equivalent use of that resource, even if welfare metrics appear equal.
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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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