Moral Responsibility for Environmental Problems—Individual or Institutional?

• DOI: 10.1007/s10806-008-9134-5
• Publication Date: 2008-11-21T16:02:06Z
• Authors: Jessica Nihlén Fa...
• Keywords: Blame; Causation; Collective responsibility

The actions performed by individuals, as consumers and citizens, have aggregate negative consequences for the environment. question asked in this paper is to what extent it reasonable hold individuals institutions responsible environmental problems. A distinction made between backward-looking forward-looking responsibility. Previously, were not seen being problems, but an idea that now sometimes implicitly or explicitly embraced public debate on problems are appropriate targets blame when they perform harmful This criticized paper. It argued instead of blaming performing environmentally friendly we should ascribe responsibility a notion focuses more capacity resources than causation blameworthiness. Furthermore, important emphasize great share also be ascribed institutional agents, primarily governments corporations. urge agents motivated efficiency aim distributions. Simply put, if corporations there better chance creating society which opportunities act way increase.