GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Martha Nussbaum, David Schlosberg, Mit Press
29 Oct 2018
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Session 10: new directions 2: animals, ecosystems, and multispecies justice. Saving the polar bear, saving the world res publica , 16, no. Justice, ecological integrity, and climate change. in allen. Thompson and jeremy bendik-keymer, eds. , ethical adaptation to climate change: David pellow, justice for the earth and all its animals. chapter 2 of total liberation. (university of minnesota press, 2014). Ecological justice and the limits of distributive discourse. Crits of ecological justice and responses. De shalit: contemporary liberalism is based on the values of neutrality, minimal state intervention, an opposition to regulations, and a concept of politics as an aggregate of autonomous decisions all of which are antithetical to environmental policies. The most common liberal way to address environmental issues is through majoritarian policymaking. Numerous others (including nussbaum): human beings are the only animals with a sense of dignity. Baxter: multiple reasons why non-human nature can"t be a moral agent:
