Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics

James, Simon P.

Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics

James, Simon P.

Authors

Professor Simon James s.p.james@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

It has often been suggested that the Buddhist teachings can help us to meet the moral challenges posed by the climate crisis. This paper, by contrast, addresses some challenges the topic of climate justice presents for Buddhist ethics. Two arguments to the effect that Buddhist ethics is incompatible with calls for climate justice are considered and rejected. It is then argued that for Buddhists such calls must nonetheless take second place to the paramount concern with overcoming suffering.

Citation

James, S. P. (2020). Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics. Journal of Buddhist ethics, 27,

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 17, 2020
Online Publication Date	Dec 21, 2020
Publication Date	2020
Deposit Date	Jun 28, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Aug 2, 2022
Journal	Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	27
Publisher URL	https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2020/12/18/climate-justice-some-challenges-for-buddhist-ethics/

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