PHIL 2750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Polluter Pays Principle, Egalitarianism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2750
• Professor: Robert J.Leland

Document Summary

Populaion and scarcity: shue global environment and internaional inequality . Shue: there is an individual duty of aid. Hardin: against it, no individual duty of aid. All interrelated ex: lood can leave to famine rich states have beneited from industrializaion. Rich states have not needed to cooperate with poorer states. Poor states: mali, uruguay, burma, mongolia, etc (not industrialized) However, the industrial acivity of rich states has been the greatest contributor to global warming. If poor states pursue the same strategy that rich states used to develop, all states will be worse of. I. e. rich states do not want other states to industrialize because everyone will be worse of (we want to avoid this) Ex: harsher climate, la into the ocean, etc. This state of afairs leads to an increase in the likelihood of an equitable relaion between states. What is the equitable way for them to cooperate? lomoar cpsd| 987298.