'Kantian Climate Justice'
Is there anything the individual ought to do in light of the climate catastrophe and insufficient political leadership in addressing it? I argue that we can find in Kant a collectivist conception of individual obligation that provides an answer: each of us, as an individual, has climate obligations, but the nature of these obligations is made determinate only with reference to the collective of which the individual is a part. I suggest that Kant’s collectivism sheds light on the relations between the individual and the collective and the ethical and political in the climate crisis.
Authors
- Angela Breitenbach
Publication Details
- Journal
- Apollo (University of Cambridge)
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.127683
- Primary Topic
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00