PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Action
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Individual behaviour (part 2: this week"s reading (hiller), direct response to last week"s reading (written by sinnot- Armstrong, referred to as sa hereafter): a criticism of sa"s argument against individual responsibility with regard to climate change action, unlike sa, hiller argues that individuals do, in fact, have a moral. Ici essentially means that as an individual, you cannot significantly contribute to a cause (i. e. , make it better or worse). "even a person"s entire lifetime impacts on any longitudinal collective action problem [like climate change] is likely to still be inconsequential" (ronald sandler, qtd. If we try to conduct a cost/benefit analysis of every individual action, then we may make some judgements about what the expected costs and benefits are of each individual action. If we do this, we would notice that there are some costs associated with going on a sunday drive: for example, you are, in fact, emitting ghg by going on a sunday drive.
