When you emit carbon dioxide those emissions will go on to harm particular people. When you buy offsets that will avert emissions that would have harmed different people.
That only seems to show that emissions do harm. Not that the harm is so finely individuated.
fwiw there are reasons to doubt the butterfly effect works in the same way given quantum mechanics
What’s this claim based on?
Harm from weather events: heat stroke, storms, crop damage. Plus the butterfly effect.
That only seems to show that emissions do harm. Not that the harm is so finely individuated. fwiw there are reasons to doubt the butterfly effect works in the same way given quantum mechanics
I’d be interested to hear Carl’s response, since this is an interesting test case for the harm-avoidance moral principles at issue.