ABSTRACT In the age of exploration western Eurasia came to dominate much of the world, in part unintentionally, via the medium of smallpox. This was domination across great spatial distances. Analogously, we are dominating distant future people across great spans of time, via the medium of greenhouse gases. Various objections to the latter claim are addressed. The objection that we cannot now dominate people who do not yet exist is answered by considerations from relativity physics.

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跨时空的统治：天花，相对论和气候伦理

摘要在勘探时代，欧亚大陆以天花为媒介，无意间占据了世界的大部分地区。这是跨越很大空间距离的统治。类似地，我们通过温室气体在很长一段时间内控制着遥远的未来人们。解决了对后一项权利要求的各种异议。相对论物理学的考虑回答了我们现在不能统治尚不存在的人们的反对。