Cumulative individual environmental behaviors become moral issues once they harm distant others

Evidence

Because of connectedness of consequences, when the cumulated effects of individual behavior affect the well-being of others worldwide, lifestyle practices are a matter of morality. As responsible stewards of our environment for future generations, we must restore moral self-sanctions for environmentally destructive practices. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2969

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the standard moral-disengagement mechanism to lifestyle choices; connects to prior vault claims about how ordinary people rationalize harmful policy via self-exemption. — connects to: Choices of activity and association shape which moral predicaments people face; Slow, diffuse causal chains obscure personal responsibility for environmental harm; A green future demands lifestyle changes tied to shared moral values
• SEED: The idea that mundane consumption habits are moral acts because of cumulative consequence aggregation — an angle on collective-action problems reframed as moral agency.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2969