Ecological sufficiency, individual liberties, and distributive justice: Implications for policy making

摘要: We investigate the prospects of voluntary ecological sufficiency for environmental and climate policy under constraints implied by political liberalism. find that freedom choice restricts to rather wealthy societies a threshold cannot be derived referring poor. Sufficiency can in conflict with demands social justice, i.e. if is below minimum justice. Benefits from are highly related individual perceptions. Such benefits expressed standard preference framework. Consequently, alternative measures welfare inequality required significant phenomenon society. ‘Standard’ policies have pronounced interaction sufficiency, ‘quantity regulation’ present. Overall, notion causes dilemma as largely matter civil However, expected make important contributions preservation resources properly balanced framed public discursive control.