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Expanding Opportunity in the Anthropocene

机译:扩展人类世界的机会

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The pre-modern world was one of gross inequalities and abject poverty. Yet, over the last two hundred years, social investments have unlocked the productive capacity and imagination of billions (Lindert, 2004), creating unparalleled material wealth but also a more peaceful, open and just world (Welzel, 2013). Of course, none of this can be taken for granted. Inside many countries, inequality and anti-democratic sentiments are again on the rise (Foa & Mounk, 2016; Piketty, 2014). Globally, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 'great acceleration' (Steffen, Broadgate, Deutsch, Gaffney, & Ludwig, 2015) that has given rise to the Anthropocene has been deeply ecologically unsustainable and that it will take a Herculean political effort to stop climate change in particular (Hansen et al., 2013). Still, as humanity comes within reach of achieving technological maturity (Bostrom, 2013) and the capacity to colonize space, its long-term survival as a species, even over cosmic timescales, may soon be secured. For a utilitarian, ensuring that humanity realizes its cosmic potential in this manner is of overriding moral concern given the sheer vastness of the future and the untold billions of individuals who could potentially come into existence (Bostrom, 2003). Even for a non-utilitarian, it seems prudent to avoid swift judgements about what 'sustainability' actually entails in a time of rapid technological change. For instance, policies and technologies that may be suitable for the local approximation of a static sustainable state in the present could well turn out to detrimental to the task of achieving a long-term sustainable trajectory at the global level (Karlsson, 2016). Thanks to the offshoring of emissions, rich countries may easily overlook how much global energy supply will have to expand in the future to accommodate a more equal world (Arto, Capellan-Perez, Lago, Bueno, & Bermejo, 2016) or how little real progress renewable technologies have made in decarbonizing the global economy as a whole (York & McGee, 2017).
机译:前现代世界是严重的不平等和赤贫之中的一个。然而,在过去的200年中,社会投资释放了数十亿人的生产能力和想象力(Lindert,2004年),创造了无与伦比的物质财富,但也创造了一个更加和平,开放和公正的世界(Welzel,2013年)。当然,这些都不是理所当然的。在许多国家内部,不平等和反民主情绪再次上升(Foa&Mounk,2016; Piketty,2014)。在全球范围内,越来越明显的是,导致人类世的“巨大加速”(Steffen,Broadgate,Deutsch,Gaffney和Ludwig,2015年)在生态上是不可持续的,将需要采取艰巨的政治努力来制止特别是气候变化(Hansen等,2013)。尽管如此,随着人类达到技术成熟的能力范围内(Bostrom,2013)和殖民空间的能力,它的长期作为物种的生存,甚至在宇宙的时间尺度上,都可能很快得到保证。对于一个功利主义者而言,鉴于未来的浩瀚广阔和无数数十亿潜在存在的个体,确保人类以这种方式实现其宇宙潜力已超出了道德关注(Bostrom,2003)。即使对于非功利主义者,也要避免对迅速的技术变革时期“可持续性”实际上意味着什么做出快速判断,这是审慎的做法。例如,目前可能适合于局部近似静态可持续状态的政策和技术很可能有害于在全球范围内实现长期可持续发展轨迹的任务(Karlsson,2016年)。得益于排放的离岸,富裕国家可能会轻易忽略未来为适应更平等的世界而必须扩大多少全球能源供应(Arto,Capellan-Perez,Lago,Bueno和Bermejo,2016年)或可再生技术在使全球经济整体脱碳方面取得了进步(York&McGee,2017)。

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    《Ethics, Place and Environment》 |2017年第3期|240-242|共3页
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    Rasmus Karlsson;

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    Department of Political Science, Umei University, Umei, Sweden;

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