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Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation

In: Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

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  • Stephen Winter

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A basic income is a very good thing. If set high enough, it could help realize each person’s equal right to be free. But it requires funding. And that raises significant ethical questions. How can we fund a basic income ethically? This chapter inserts itself between two judgments expressed by Karl Widerquist and Michael Howard, the editors of this volume. First they suggest we should fund basic income by taxing natural resource appropriation. They argue that “taxing natural resources is at least as good, and probably far better than the case for taxing any other source of wealth.”2 The judgment is comparative, and one reason for their preference (but perhaps not the only one) is that most forms of taxation involve morally dubious expropriations of private property. If its funding were to involve wrongful rights violations, then a basic income funded through taxation would be complicit with that wrongdoing.

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  • Stephen Winter, 2012. "Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Karl Widerquist & Michael W. Howard (ed.), Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, chapter 0, pages 189-204, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-01502-0_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137015020_13
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    1. Pinto Jorge, 2020. "Environmentalism, Ecologism, and Basic Income," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, June.
    2. Mumbunan, Sonny & Maitri, Ni Made Rahayu, 2022. "A Review of Basic Income for Nature and Climate," OSF Preprints bre43, Center for Open Science.

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