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Abstract
Many governments are failing to act sufficiently strongly on climate change. Given this, what should motivated affluent individuals in high-consumption societies do? This paper argues that social norms are a particularly valuable target for individual climate action. Within norm-promotion, the paper makes the case for a focus on anti-fossil fuel norms specifically. Section 1 outlines gaps in the existing literature on individuals’ climate change obligations. Section 2 characterises social norms. Section 3 provides seven reasons why social norms are a particularly worthy target for individual climate actors. Section 4 asks which social norms individuals should emphasise, arguing that anti-fossil fuel norms have advantages over emissions reduction and offsetting norms. Section 5 outlines the pathways and mechanisms individuals might exploit to promote anti-fossil fuel norms.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 103-125 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Politics, Philosophy and Economics |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2023 |
Keywords
- anti-fossil fuel norms
- change change
- emissions reduction
- individual obligations
- offsetting
- social norms
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