Vulnerability and care as basis for an environmental ethics of global justice

Abstract

In this chapter I argue in the context of contemporary authors (I.M. Young, Butler, Tronto, Puyol) that there is no justice without care, nor democracy without a public vision of care, that situates it between an ecological ceiling that we should not have exceeded and a minimum floor of necessities below which we cannot live. An environmental ethics and one that is for global justice must by necessity pay attention to care and our essential and supervening condition as vulnerable and eco-interdependent.