Debates about individual responsibility for climate change revolve mainly around individual mitigation duties. Mitigation duties concern future impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, climate change has already caused important harms and it is foreseeable that it will cause more in the future, in spite of our best efforts. Thus, arguably, individuals might also have duties related to those harms. In this paper, I address the question of whether individuals are obligated to provide compensation for climate related harms that have already occurred. I explore two possible strategies to answer that question. The straightforward strategy answers in the affirmative. Two approaches embrace this strategy: the ‘ecological citizenship’ approach and the benefits-based approach. I challenge those two approaches and rule out an affirmative answer. The alternative strategy answers in the negative but provides a way to respond to why currently living individuals should pay for burdens created for past individuals. Two possible approaches embrace this alternative: the community-based approach and my own state-based benefits approach. I will argue that individual duties do not fall under the realm of compensatory justice, but they have nonetheless a duty to bear compensatory burdens allocated to their states.

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历史排放和死污染者反对的个人补偿义务

关于气候变化的个人责任的争论主要围绕着个人的减缓责任。缓解责任涉及气候变化的未来影响。不幸的是，气候变化已经造成了严重的危害，可以预见的是，尽管我们尽了最大的努力，但它在未来还会造成更多危害。因此，可以说，个人也可能有与这些伤害相关的义务。在本文中，我解决了个人是否有义务为已经发生的气候相关危害提供赔偿的问题。我探索了两种可能的策略来回答这个问题。直截了当的策略给出了肯定的答案。有两种方法包含这一策略：“生态公民”方法和基于利益的方法。我挑战这两种方法并排除肯定的答案。替代策略的答案是否定的，但提供了一种方法来回应为什么现在活着的人应该为过去的人造成的负担买单。两种可能的方法采用这种替代方法：基于社区的方法和我自己的基于州的福利方法。我将争辩说，个人义务不属于补偿性正义的范畴，但他们仍然有责任承担分配给其所在州的补偿性负担。