ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the implications of the 'Green challenge' is in many respects one which applies across the political spectrum. It draws on comment upon several views of justice, both as they have been articulated in political philosophy and as they exist in 'common sense' political thought and institutional politics. The chapter argues that between formal theories of justice, generally derived from 'first principles' and views of justice which at least claim the status of articulations of the normative commitments of actual moral communities. It explores how each of these four features of Green thought poses problems for ways of thinking about justice developed independently of and prior to the rise of contemporary Green movements. The moral focus of the concern for justice, at least as it applies to human relations, is the individual subject, whereas the moral focus of the concern for the stability of the 'biotic community' is the biotic community.