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    Without a duty-bearing agent capable of structural reform... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The international climate change regime is structurally unjust toward the poorest nations.

    Without a duty-bearing agent capable of structural reform, the charge of injustice lacks the correlativity required by rights-based frameworks.

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    • 1.Rights entail correlative duties; a duty without a bearer capable of performing it is conceptually incoherent.
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    • 2.Injustice claims require addressees who can be held responsible; diffuse systemic harms lack clear duty-holders.
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    • 3.Structural reform demands intentional agency; attributing injustice without identifying capable reformers is rhetorical.
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    • 1.Duty-bearers can be collective entities or institutional roles, not requiring unified intentional agents.
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    • 2.Injustice describes harm patterns regardless of reform capacity; rights can identify wrongs without guaranteeing remedies.
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    • 3.The claim confuses metaphysical preconditions with normative force; structural injustice exists prior to identifying reformers.
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    Structural reform demands intentional agency; attributing injustice without iden...The claim confuses metaphysical preconditions with normative force; structural i...The international climate change regime is structurally unjust toward the poores...

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