气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting

CCPortal

DOI	10.1080/00048402.2024.2328639
	The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting
	John, Tyler M.; Askell, Amanda; Wilkinson, Hayden
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0004-8402
EISSN	1471-6828
英文摘要	Many real-world agents recognise that they impose harms by choosing to emit carbon, for example, by flying. Yet many do so anyway, and then attempt to make things right by offsetting those harms. Such offsetters typically believe that, by offsetting, they change the deontic status of their behaviour, making an otherwise impermissible action permissible. Do they succeed in practice? Some philosophers have argued that they do, since their offsets appear to reverse the adverse effects of their emissions. But we show that they do not. In practice, standard carbon offsetting does not reverse the harms of the original action, nor does it even benefit the same group as was harmed. Standard moral theories hence deny that such offsetting succeeds. Indeed, we show that any moral theory that allows offsetting in this setting faces a dilemma between allowing any wrong to be offset, no matter how grievous, and recognising an implausibly sharp discontinuity between offsettable actions and non-offsettable actions. The most plausible response is to accept that carbon offsetting fails to right our climate wrongs.
英文关键词	offsetting; harm; compensation; climate change
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Philosophy
WOS类目	Philosophy
WOS记录号	WOS:001211312100001
来源期刊	AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/292554
作者单位	Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; New York University; University of Oxford
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John, Tyler M.,Askell, Amanda,Wilkinson, Hayden. The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting[J],2024.
APA	John, Tyler M.,Askell, Amanda,&Wilkinson, Hayden.(2024).The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting.AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY.
MLA	John, Tyler M.,et al."The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting".AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY (2024).