Protecting our future: What contribution can I make?


Gesang, Bernward


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000014
URL: https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransforma...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-623879
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2022
The title of a journal, publication series: PLOS sustainability and transformation
Volume: 1
Issue number: 6
Page range: 1-12
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Publishing house: PLOS
ISSN: 2767-3197
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Publication language: English
Institution: School of Humanities > Philosophie II (Gesang 2009-)
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 100 Philosophy
Abstract: (A) The crises related to climate and the economy endanger future and current generations but altering the small impact or minimal emissions of an individual person is—because of the failure of political coordination—not the best way to overcome these crises. (B) When we act as individuals to act as stopgaps for policy to minimise the mountain of problems, the following applies: We should not waste our energies on limited involvements in small, primarily symbolic collaborations but should instead endeavour to make the biggest difference of which we are capable with regard to improving the world. (C) We make the biggest difference when our limited budget for improving the world is used against poverty, for example, and combatting poverty is precisely what brings positive side effects with regard to human rights and the protection of the climate, animals, and species. For example, support for poor farmers in rain forests can save those rain forests. Every CO2 calculator demonstrates that commitment to the Third World is up to 50 times more efficient than reduction of personal emissions.


Environmental SustainabilitySDG 13: Climate ActionSDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsSDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals


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