Climate Change, Justice, and Beneficence

Harvard HMS

In this seminar we explore justice and beneficence near and far. We engage in moral reasoning to learn what obligations we bear, in the throes of anthropogenic climate change, to benefit and to prevent harm to peoples and generations distant from us in space and time. Moral intuitions differ on recognition of distant persons as objects of moral concern. The urgency posed by occurrent climate change motivates work to construct a compelling understanding of what we collectively ought and…