climate justice
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climate justice is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 16, 2022 and March 24, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “it’s climate justice”; “people are talking about “climate justice””; “Philosophy Bear , as Economic Justice And Climate Justice Are Not Metaphors”. It most often appears alongside 1984, Apollo Mojave, Charity.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 16, 2022
- Last seen: March 24, 2022
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Related Pages
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- 1984 (2 shared issues)
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- Apollo Mojave (2 shared issues)
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- Charity (2 shared issues)
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- economic justice (2 shared issues)
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- environmental justice (2 shared issues)
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- O’Brien (2 shared issues)
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- Rawls (2 shared issues)
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- Sniper (2 shared issues)
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- Terra Ignota (2 shared issues)
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- Acrolectics (1 shared issues)
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- Adnamanil (1 shared issues)
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- AJPio (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Helping the poor becomes economic justice. If they’re minorities, then it’s racial justice, itself a subspecies of social justice. Saving the environment becomes environmental justice, except when it’s about climate change in which case it’s climate justice. Caring about young people is actually about fighting for intergenerational justice. The very laws of space and time are subject to spatial justice and temporal justice.
Inline links: economic justice, racial justice, social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, intergenerational justice, spatial justice, temporal justice
What is “climate justice”? Was the Little Ice Age unjust? What if it killed millions? Is it unjust for Mali to have a less pleasant climate than California? What if I said that there’s a really high correlation between temperature and GDP, and Mali’s awful climate is a big part of why it’s so poor? Climate justice couldn’t care less about any of this. Why not? Hard to say. Maybe because there’s no violation and no villain.
Is that conflating the sophisticated Rawlsian sense of justice with the vulgar criminal sense? Maybe. But do you think the millions of people talking about _____ justice who have never heard of Rawls are somehow avoiding that conflation? I think it’s a motte-and-bailey: justice - as it’s actually used - is catchy exactly because it does draw on criminal justice connotations. I don’t think it’s a coincidence people are talking about “climate justice” at the same time there are 311,000 Google hits for “climate villains”:
Inline links: motte-and-bailey
And Philosophy Bear, as Economic Justice And Climate Justice Are Not Metaphors:
Nevertheless, yes, climate justice and economic justice- for example- are also about being just in the same way laws against murder are- no stretching of meaning is required…
Likewise, when I play computer games, which causes my local power plant to emit a little more CO2, am I harming people on Kiribati? Yes, definitely (to some very small degree). Is it a violation of climate justice that I am allowed to play computer games? Can we at least agree that this is a tougher question?