This article approaches the challenges of the distribution of responsibility for climate change on a local level using the framework of the milieu. It suggests that the framework of the milieu, inspired by Japanese and cross-cultural environmental philosophy, provides pathways to address the four challenges of climate change (global dispersion, fragmentation of agency, institutional inadequacy, temporal delay). The framework of the milieu clarifies the interrelations between the individual, the community, and the local milieu and is open to a conservative view of human communities and an inclusive view of multispecies communities. On this basis, an account of individual responsibility that is anchored in the local milieu and includes a responsibility to collaborate across milieus is developed. It consists of a forward-looking responsibility that balances a degree of contributory responsibility for one’s imprints on the milieu with a degree of capacity-responsibility that varies regarding the individual’s knowledge and powers, and the acceptability of practices within the local milieu.

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环境中气候变化责任的分配

本文使用环境框架解决了在地方层面分配气候变化责任的挑战。它表明，受日本和跨文化环境哲学启发的环境框架提供了应对气候变化四大挑战（全球分散、机构分散、制度不足、时间延迟）的途径。环境框架阐明了个人、社区和当地环境之间的相互关系，并对人类社区的保守观点和多物种社区的包容性观点持开放态度。在此基础上，开发了一种基于当地环境并包括跨环境协作的责任的个人责任说明。