Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Gindo Tampubolon

No wp-2023-2, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such as rights and incomes, to those who have less—the maximin principle of the Rawlsian social welfare function. Climate injustice consists in putting more climate bads, not primary goods, on those with slender shoulders—a maximin social ill-fare function.

Keywords: Justice; Capabilities; Climate justice; People with disabilities; Environmental justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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