Climate justice and Australia’s climate priorities (David Ritter, ASPI The Strategist)

The real climate debate isn’t around whether anthropocentric climate change is happening, but the nature, speed and scale of action we need to take in response. ‘Climate justice’ situates how we should respond to climate change as a moral, ethical and political matter requiring a just response, rather than just a practical or physical problem to be solved. As with every great public dilemma, a variety of preferences exist in relation to what action should be taken, depending on differences in understandings of how the world works and normative preferences as to what constitutes the good society. Various forms of ‘action on climate change’ could promote a widely divergent array of social outcomes—quite apart from the question of emissions reduction.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/climate-justice-and-australias-climate-priorities/