A duty to restraint can insert sustainability into liberal justice

Evidence

Wissenburg offers another approach to greening Rawlsian justice— focusing on the duty we have to restraint. ‘Whenever there is a choice between destroying a good, thus depriving others of present or future options to realize legitimate plans, or merely using it without limiting other peoples’ options, we have a duty to do the latter’ (1998: 124). This restraint principle can be used in various environmental matters, both domestic and international, as a way to bring a notion of sustainability into liberal decision-making. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 364

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal justice can fold environmental goods into distribution only after triage by public agreement. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 368; Liberalism must dominate the unredeemed world by reason or by force; Environmental justice is chiefly a political-economic struggle with law as one tool — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 333 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberalism must dominate the unredeemed world by reason or by force #complicates (0.75)
• Liberal legal forms protect individual liberty beyond capitalist economic needs #corroborates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 248
• Environmental justice is chiefly a political-economic struggle with law as one tool #qualifies (0.72) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 333