ABSTRACT
For authors in the philosophical debate climate change reminds ofimportant problems which are discussed in research on global justice with its focus on famine and poverty in many parts of the world. They point out unequal impacts of climate change at different points of the globe where the poor and those who are disfavored anyway are hit hardest by the effects of changing weather and temperature. This distribution of effects is, on the one hand, caused by geographie situations (maybe in contrast to famine and poverty), but, on the other hand, it is also related to different infrastructures which depend on respective positions in the global economy and the unequal distribution ofaccess to resources. The expected effects ofanthropogenie climate change not only reproduce existing inequalities and injustices, they rather reinforce the latter and contribute to a situation in which measures against injustices fail." Climate change is, therefore, also
an important subject in the philosophical debate because it expounds the problems ofusual strategies intended to improve domestic or global justice." Climate change raises questions especially in non-ideal theory which, so far, has mostly concentrated on problems related to missing motivations to comply with moral duties. Competing moral obligations or mutually reinforcing morally 'corrosive' processes are a new challenge for this theory."
