Climate change and intergenerational justice / Tracey Skillington.

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figure; Acknowledgments; Introduction: thinking differently about the future; Tracing the origins of the Anthropocene and the fossil fuel economy; A sociological approach to intergenerational justice; Ecological crisis and societal learning; Insights on the nature of social and geological worlds: the emancipatory potentials of the Anthropocene; 1 Relations between generations as relations of domination; Introduction; Accounting for relations of inequality that reach beyond the present; Language, power and denial

Youth as climate burden bearersBetween justice ideals and lived realities: climate harms as violations of constitutional rights; 2 Changing the evaluative discourse on climate change: the campaign for future justice; Introduction; Framing climate change at close range; Social representations of intergenerational wrongdoing; Asserting rights to democratic participation; Transforming the future through the present; 3 Are future peoples the bearers of present rights?; Introduction; The case against ascribing present rights to future generations

The case in favor of ascribing present rights to future generationsThe contribution of science to the debate on intergenerational justice; 4 Balancing generational sovereignty with a future ethics; Introduction; 'The Earth belongs always to living generations': how Jefferson got it wrong; Pursuing climate justice through the courts: the people v. the state; Advancing an anticipatory approach to climate justice; 5 Publicly embedded constitutions: legislating for present and future generations; Introduction; Existing state constitutional references to future generations

Protecting future generations' future rights to self-determination6 A deeper framework of intergenerational justice; Introduction; The absence of a macro perspective on relations of justice across generations; Barriers in the way of a social connection approach to justice; Addressing regulatory dysfunctionality; Representing the interests of youth and citizens-to-be; Index

Synonymous with catastrophe and destructive tendencies, the Anthropocene provokes reflection on the limits of existing applications of ideas of responsibility, ecological agency and democratic justice. Youth campaigners, in particular, make emerging insights on the Anthropocene of central importance to an intersubjectively generated redefinition of the just society of the future. Given their span of affectedness, escalating rates of greenhouse gas emissions shape the ecological circumstances of generations to come and implicate them in harm relations they had no hand in creating. The realization is that human-inspired climate-destructive practices reverberate across plural time frames, thereby raising serious questions about the value of conventional interpretations of the copresence of sources of climate harm and their effects on the health and environmental living standards of all peoples. If injuries provoked by environmental degradation emerge across multiple time frames and affect generations differentially, where do we draw the boundaries of the just society, and how do we identify its most relevant subjects? This book explores how such questions have ignited one of the most important debates on democratic justice in recent years - that between generations. For mobilized youth and future justice coalitions campaigning internationally, expanding resource inequalities (regionally and intergenerationally) are fundamentally issues of unfair exclusions and asymmetries in relations of power between generations. The book offers a comprehensive overview of new insights being generated through such debate on the limitations of democratic presentism, as well as current institutional applications of civil and human rights norms. It assesses overall how the metapolitical relevance of modernity's democratic project is being creatively redefined in terms more relevant to Anthropocene futures.

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