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It is the rich that should pay for the costs of climate change.
Yes
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
The poor will be hurt most of all
Singer Agrees with this
The richest governments have the best ability to mitigate
The United States cause most problems, can mitigate with scientific expertise ans still have bare necessities
Any ordinary person does not have the capacity to individually change climate change, not necessary or suifficient
Singer
You broke it You fix it principle
Fixing the problem in proportion to amount of damage
The Industrial revolution enabled colonisation
Disproportional benefit
Moss
The Polluter Pays principle
WHo caused problems in first place
Burden on the people with means to pay
Henry Shue - You broke it you fix it
The Benefit should pay
Even if ignorant, if you enjoy the benefits of your harm you are responsible
Teh obligations are stronger when the benefit has been paid unjustly
Simon Caney
Polluter pays principle
Those who contribute greatly to climate change should make amends for this
Ability to pay
Those responsible for emitting greenhouse gasses have continued to do so even when they've been made aware of the consequences --> we have known since 1990s
They are not excused because ignorance does not exonerate them because they would have emitted just as much anyways.
Paul Baer
No
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
A significant amount of global warming is due to the activities of humans collectively
The Harm Principle
The Indirect Harm prinicple
The Contribution Principle
The gas principle
The Risk Principle
The Group Principle
Singer
China's belief that climate change considered on per ca-pita basis
The industrial revolution has benefited the world, not only industrialised nations
Industrialised nations may not have originally known emissions would be harmful
The equal shares principle
Takes no account of the past
Everyone gets equal share
Rwandan President Kagame 2009 UN summit
Moss
Objection to you broke it you fix it --> ignorance
The Weak Link problem
Individual citizen of a polluting state adopting anti emitting practices
Application to historical basis
Implausible to ask members of one generation to take responsibility for the actions of people who they couldn't control
the Fair shares approach
Main reason for obligations to pay for climate change is so they can afford it
Strong link to agents that caused the harm to generate obligations to pay and tell us about patterns of distributions
Simon Caney
One worry about applying the polluter pays principle --> people excusably ignorant of the fact that activities lead to climate change
We do not now how treading on spot on the ground causes harm to others on the other side of the globe and not expected to unless that person derives benefit from it.
Paul Baer
Sustainability should be seen as another aspect of aggregate human welfare
Any harms can be monetised or substituted with any other form of wealth/consumption
AN optimalarrangement of emissions can be made based on equity
Posner and Weibach
Their view is that the poorer nations should spend as much on reduction of emissions as the rich
The polluters seem to not have to compensate the victims
There is no way to compel countries that are profiting from unsustainable levels of pollution to compensate victims.