"Every one of us now has a duty to do something, if not for ourselves then for the survival of future generations" - Elizabeth Cripps

From The Guardian opinion - Elizabeth Cripps

'Reasons for apathy' #2: “It’s too expensive!”

"This is the so-called economic argument against mitigating climate change: that it’s cheaper to adjust to a hotter planet. Even if this were factually unassailable (spoiler alert: it’s not), it would be morally flawed. It relies on what philosophers call utilitarianism – the view that we should maximise overall welfare (often, in practice, overall money) even if some people suffer desperately along the way. That’s in direct contradiction to the most basic intuition of commonsense morality. It disregards human rights.

Even if we swallowed this pill, it takes another questionable assumption to make the anti-mitigation sums add up. These economic arguments, says the philosopher Simon Caney, assume that future people’s pain, even their deaths, count for less in the cost-benefit calculations if these are further in the future. That isn’t standard economic discounting; it’s discounting the lives of our descendants."

• Elizabeth Cripps is a writer and moral philosopher at the University of Edinburgh, and author of What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care

350 Milwaukee Meeting
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Milwaukee Alderman Nik Kovac
City/County Action on Climate Change

Milwaukee City-County Joint Taskforce on Climate and Economic Equity
 

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