Dewey Lecture Examines Intergenerational Risk of Ignoring Climate Change
The 2017 Dewey Lecture, delivered on November 8 by Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Merton College, University of Oxford, examined the growing risk that current generations bestow on future ones when they avoid addressing climate change and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions.
“Is the burden of bringing about the global energy revolution too heavy to expect current generations alone to bear?” he asked the audience. “This is difficult to think about in a sensible way. In a way, it does seem unfair that the challenge for the current generations is so much greater than what we might call the average burden for the average generation. But what says that the burdens ought to be equal across generations?”
A full video of the lecture can be viewed above.