RT Article
T1 Risking Future Generations
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 21
IS 2
SP 245
OP 257
A1 Kumar, Rahul
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1575793555
AB Many of the policy choices we face that have implications for the lives of future generations involve creating a risk that they will live lives that are significantly compromised. I argue that we can fruitfully make use of the resources of Scanlon's contractualist account of moral reasoning to make sense of the intuitive idea that, in many cases, the objection to adopting a policy that puts the interest of future generations at risk is that doing so wrongs those who will live in the further future.
K1 Risk
K1 Contractualism
K1 future generations
K1 non-identity problem
DO 10.1007/s10677-018-9880-z