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Darrel Moellendorf, "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Anti Catastrophe Principle

Theory of intergenerational egalitarianism which we thought could be a promising alternative to, to the, the discounted utilitarian picture in it. And you could also sort of nicely put it into their equations which was Axel's job, not mine, I had no clue about it. It just turns out for, for technical reasons that we don't have to get too far into it that the weird thing about this theory is that what it demands is actually impossible to achieve if you're successful with respect to climate change. At some point the costs just stop and the generations future generations are wealthier so it's just not, it sets, it sets aims that are impossible to achieve so that can't possibly

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