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Future Design Workshop 38 "Democratic Resistance, Climate Change, and Fair Turns Among Generations"

Date
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023, 13:30-15:00
Venue
Online and RIHN Seminar room 1・2(Hybrid)
*Please contact the person in charge if you wish to participate.
Organized
NAKAGAWA Strategic Project
Speakers
Prof. Matthias Fritsch(Concordia University, Montreal)
Abstract

This talk will argue that currently wide-spread climate disobedience (political resistance in the name of climate justice and action on climate change) may be justified by the turn-taking model of fairness among generations. I will begin by defining climate disobedience and taking turns, and then show that to specify what a fair turn with earth might be, the well-known planetary boundary model can serve as a useful benchmark. I conclude that political and economic decision-makers that do not respect the boundaries thus make themselves liable to resistance, esp. by the next turn-taker, the future generation already overlapping with current decision-makers.

Language
English
Contact
NAKAGAWA Strategic Project
UEDA
ueda[at]chikyu.ac.jp *Please change [at] to @

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