Document Type
Research Article - Refereed
Abstract
In this paper, we adopt a sufficientarian ethics approach to study the concern of consumption inadequacy engendered by climate change in subsistence communities. The sufficientarian approach to consumption ethics dictates that in the face of climate change, priority should be afforded to establishing and maintaining consumption adequacy in low-income settings. We elaborate on the basic principles underlying sufficientarian ethics and compare it to alternative approaches such as utilitarian ethics and prioritarian ethics. Subsequently, we turn our attention toward specifying how poverty and the deleterious impact of climate change combine to render subsistence communities more vulnerable to consumption inadequacies as compared to more affluent communities. We take a granular approach to studying vulnerability by decomposing it into three components – a) exposure (of consumption to the deleterious impacts of climate change), b) sensitivity (of consumption to the deleterious impacts of climate change) and c) resilience (of consumption in recovering from the deleterious impacts of climate change).
Recommended Citation
Venugopal, Srinivas and Chakrabarti, Ronika
(2024)
"A Sufficientarian Approach to Consumption Ethics in the Face of Climate Change,"
Subsistence Marketplaces: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/subsistencemarketplaces/vol1/iss1/9