In this way, as with many other claims, I think that Heath is doing interesting work, testing some of the limits of common claims by climate ethicists... Whether Heath's is the best basis to do so is up for debate, but I believe the project is exciting and worthy of critical scrutiny and discussion.
Joseph Heath is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation, Heath is the author of several books, both popular and academic. His most recent, The Machinery of Government (Oxford, 2020), is a study of the ethics of public administration. He is also the author of Enlightenment 2.0, which won the Shaughnessy Cohen prize for Political Writing in Canada.