Environmental degradation harms present and future citizens non-arbitrarily

Evidence

These linkages between us and our environment mean that when you degrade that enviroment you hurt me and mine, you hurt us and ours. You may affect our collective chances of survival, our individual prospects of a long and healthy life, or our opportunities for affirming our conaturality with other species, and for identifying with the planet that we share with them. Or if you do not affect us, the current representatives of our species in those ways, you may well affect future generations of human beings, including the future citizens of the society and state that we constitute. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 630

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘we are none of us a natural island’ framing with the ecosystem argument at 629; connects to the non-domination as inclusive ideal argument for green theory. — connects to: Environmental harm is a product of human activity carrying a moral obligation; Environmental degradation makes law necessary for the preservation of freedom — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1524

Broader Connections

• Environmental harm is a product of human activity carrying a moral obligation #corroborates (0.78)