Common Ownership or Global Commons?: Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in Light of Climate Crisis

Petra Gümplová

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Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in Light of Climate Crisis

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Pages:: 71–96

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679955_005

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This chapter examines Risse’s conception of common ownership of the earth in light of rapidly progressing climate change and asks whether it can become a foundation of a different vision of humans’ standing vis-à-vis the earth and their claims to the natural habitat, alternative to prevalent systems premised upon the notion of limitless exploitation of natural resources. The chapter exposes two problematic features upon which Risse’s conception of COE rests – the ontological assumptions built into a conception of ownership which make it difficult to incorporate environmental limits into our claims to natural resources and the narrow concept of basic needs which fails to account for a two-way relationship between the realization of justice and the state of the natural world. These two tenets, I argue, make Risse’s COE unfit for an account of justice in environmentally degrading world. Throughout the chapter I suggest the regime of commons is more appropriate for global resource domains providing vital yet depletable natural resources.

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Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy

Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004679955

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 21 Aug 2023

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