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Tag Archives: rights
Why carbon credits are not credible
If you want to protect human rights, you should look to what’s good for humans; if you want to protect the environment, you should look to what’s good for the environment. These things sound obvious when you say them. But … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, environment, human rights, Laudato Si
Tagged climate, climate change, environment, fossil fuel, human rights, natural capital, Pope Francis, property rights, rights
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Why shouldn’t Scottish prisoners get to vote?
On prisoner voting, the UK government is less progressive than most other European countries. Scotland aspires to be a ‘beacon of progressive opinion’, but its government not only acquiesces in the UK position, it has also declined to take the … Continue reading
Posted in constitutional politics, human rights, prisoners' rights
Tagged democracy, ethics, rights, social responsibility
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What is Ecological Space?
For some time I have been seeking to persuade people that when thinking about justice in relation to natural resources these are usefully conceptualized in terms of ecological space. What exactly it means to speak of ecological space, and how … Continue reading
Posted in ecological space, environment, environmental ethics, global justice, human rights
Tagged ecological space, environment, ethics, global justice, human rights, rights
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What does it mean to have a duty ‘to’ someone
This is the question explored in my latest article (Tim Hayward, ‘On Prepositional Duties’, Ethics, 123.2 (2013): 264-291). We familiarly speak of a person having a duty ‘to’ another person, but are we really clear what this expression conveys? I … Continue reading
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