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ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 536-555Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09644010802193401
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council [17358/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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It is widely recognised that climate change is having malign effects on human life. How though should we evaluate these changes? The dominant approach employs cost-benefit analysis. In this essay I defend an alternative. I argue that we should see climate change as a threat to human rights. The inter-temporal character of climate change poses a second question, namely should we subject these rights to a positive discount rate. I examine five arguments which purport to show that the human rights jeopardised by dangerous climate change should be subject to a positive discount rate and conclude that none of these succeed. I argue that the rights jeopardised by dangerous climate change do not diminish in importance throughout time.
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