Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto Protocol |
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Authors: | Marc D Davidson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, 1012 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Today, the United States is as dependent on fossil fuels for its patterns of consumption and production as its South was on
slavery in the mid-nineteenth century. That US congressmen tend to rationalise fossil fuel use despite climate risks to future
generations just as Southern congressmen rationalised slavery despite ideals of equality is perhaps unsurprising, then. This
article explores similarities between the rationalisation of slavery in the abolition debates and the rationalisation of ongoing
emissions of greenhouse gases in the US congressional debates on the Kyoto Protocol. |
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