Environment, Identity and the Future

Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 1 (1):87-95 (1999)
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According to the non-identity problem we may sometimes choose to bring a disadvantaged person into the world, or no person at all, so that the disadvantaged person thus has no apparent claim against us. Applied to cases of environmental degradation, posterity apparently has no claim against present polluters if their existence depends on it. I discuss the problem with reference to utilitarianism and the notion of intergenerational continuity

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