Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action

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This collection helps bridge the divide between the work of normative theorists and climate action (or inaction). In this volume, contributors reflect on how we should understand the relationship between theorizing about climate justice, the principles of justice that result, and feasibility constraints on climate action. Some explore the role of theorists or the usefulness of their theories for guiding policymaking and action on climate change, while others discuss concerns with who is establishing what the feasibility constraints are and how they are doing so. Others identify and discuss psychological feasibility constraints on just climate action, or draw important parallels and distinctions between the feasibility constraints that were tackled in order to address the COVID-19 pandemic and those that need to be tackled in order to respond to global climate change. The international and interdisciplinary contributors offer a range of approaches and frameworks, to re-think the ways that concerns of justice should be considered on the policy level, speaking to students, research scholars, activists, and policymakers. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction I. Background II. Climate Justice and Global Climate Negotiations III. Feasibility IV. Thematic Overview References Chapter 1: Feasibility and Climate Justice I. Background II. How Changes since 2010 Affect Feasibility III. Arguments against Feasibility Restrictions IV. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2: Utopia, Feasibility, and the Need for Interpretive and Clinical Climate Ethics I. Problems with the Utopian Approach II. Two Alternative Approaches to Climate Ethics III. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 3: Falling on Your Own Feasibility Sword? Challenges for Climate Policy Based on “Simple Self-Interest” I. Context II. Ambition III. Self-Interest IV. Methodology V. Conclusions Notes References Chapter 4: Climate Justice, Feasibility Constraints, and the Role of Political Philosophy I. The Climate Crisis II. An Initial Case for Radical Requirements of Climate Justice III. Feasibility Objections IV. Feasibility Constraints on the Content of Justice and Feasibility Constraints on Theorizing in Urgent Circumstances V. The Role of Ambitious Theorizing in Urgent Circumstances Notes References Chapter 5: Is a Just Climate Policy Feasible? I. Feasibility Constraints and Climate Action II. Feasibility Constraints on Carbon Pricing III. Feasibility versus Justice? IV. Feasibility Constraints and Ideal Theory V. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 6: The “Pathway Problem,” Probabilistic Feasibility, and Non-Ideal Climate Justice I. Non-Ideal Theory, the “Pathway Problem,” and Climate Justice II. The Pathway Problem in a Climate-Changing Future: A Critique III. Defending the Pathway IV. Departing the Pathway V. Conclusion: A Warning and an Opportunity Notes References Chapter 7: Making the Great Climate Transition: Between Justice and Feasibility I. Feasibility: Its Kinds and Functions II. Feasibility, Power, and Privilege III. Fighting Injustice First, while not Losing Sight of the Overall Goal IV. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 8: Is Climate Justice Feasible? A Psychological Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving a Just Climate Regime I. Psychological Barriers to Just Climate Change Action II. Additional Considerations: Efficacy, Capitulation, and Urgency III. Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Climate Justice and Feasibility Considerations IV. Concluding Thoughts References Chapter 9: Climate Change, Individual Preferences, and Procrastination I. Intertemporal Preference Reversal II. Intransitive Preferences III. Overcoming Climate Change Procrastination IV. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 10: COVID Pandemic and Climate Change: An Essay on Soft Constraints and Global Risks I. Hard Constraints and Soft Constraints II. Mitigation and Adaptation Goals III. Structural Soft Constraints and the System of States IV. Proximity Constraints and the Claims of Future People V. Global Risks in a Post-Pandemic World Note References Index About the Contributors