ABSTRACT
A great deal of today’s political philosophy is preoccupied with theories of distributive justice. However, there is also a growing interest among moral and political philosophers in environmental concerns. Andrew Dobson argues that the environmental justice movement sees the environment as ‘a particular form of goods and bads that society must divide among its members’. He commences by seeking to identify the various conceptions of environmental sustainability; and on the basis of his perusal of the literature, and then distils them into specific types. And one might want to do so simply because one wishes to stop those living in that undeveloped or underdeveloped society from destroying their natural environment. Remarkably, Justice and the Environment actually opens with the assertion that life on Earth will have become untenable some time before our sun turns into a Red Giant, swallowing the Earth in the process, in about five billion years time.
