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The Demandingness of Individual Climate Duties: A Reply to Fragnière

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In this article, I respond to Augustin Fragnière's recent attempt to understand the demandingness of individual climate duties by appealing to the difference between “concentrated” harm and “spread” harm and the importance of “moral thresholds”. I suggest his arguments don't succeed in securing the conclusion he is after, even from within his own commitments, which themselves are problematic. As this is primarily a critical project, the upshot of this discussion is that if there is a defensible way to justify the intuition that the duty to reduce emissions can't be overly demanding, it has to be found elsewhere.

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  • Hickey, Colin, 2021. "The Demandingness of Individual Climate Duties: A Reply to Fragnière," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 33(3), pages 353-360, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:33:y:2021:i:3:p:353-360_7
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