ABSTRACT
In a world of greatly intensified connections across borders, featuring far-reaching transformations in social and ecological relations, it is no longer credible to pretend that the effects of our behaviour take place only locally or regionally. It also becomes less tenable, therefore, to limit our moral horizon to proximate individuals and groups impacted by our actions: scientific understanding is making clearer the ways in which many local actions have transboundary or global impacts, while modern telecommunications technologies can convey to us in real time scenes of human distress and ecological destruction taking place on the other side of the planet.
