Is climate action unfair?

Visit a climate protest, and you are likely to hear about future generations. They’ll be there on signs, in speeches. References to children and grandchildren. Failure to act is a betrayal of the future. It leaves the world in a worse state, and leaves our children to clean up our mess. Inaction on climate change is profoundly unfair.

In his book What is Intergenerational Justice?, Axel Gosseries asks a question that troubles the water. Climate inaction may be unfair on the future. But is cl...