Climate Change and Coercive Disobedience [Spanish]

Authors

  • Francisco García Gibson Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

democracy, basic rights,, legitimacy, climate catastrophe, non-interference

Abstract

This article argues that when coercive disobedience is motivated by climate change, it is sometimes permissible, even if it is undemocratic. Climate change poses such a serious danger to the basic rights of millions of people worldwide that even the basic right to democracy can be justifiably displaced as a means to reduce the risks posed
by a climate catastrophe. The article also replies to the claim that coercive climate disobedience is always democratic because it equalizes informal influence over public
decisions, or protects the preconditions of democracy; these arguments only rescue some acts of coercive climate disobedience. The rest are still undemocratic, but they are not for this reason impermissible.

 

Author Biography

Francisco García Gibson, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad de Buenos Aires

Investigador Asistente, Consejo nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.

Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos, Filosofía del Derecho.

 

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2022-02-13

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No. 37 (2022): January-June

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