Abstract

GARCIA GIBSON, Francisco. Climate Change and Coercive Disobedience. Eidos [online]. 2022, n.37, pp.195-215.  Epub June 11, 2022. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.37.304.25.

This article argues that when coercive disobedience is motivated by climate change, it is sometimes permissible, even if it is undemocratic. Climate change poses such a serious danger to the basic rights of millions of people worldwide that even the basic right to democracy can be justifiably displaced as a means to reduce the risks posed by a climate catastrophe. The article also replies to the claim that coercive climate disobedience is always democratic because it equalizes informal influence over public decisions, or protects the preconditions of democracy; these arguments only rescue some acts of coercive climate disobedience. The rest are still undemocratic, but they are not for this reason impermissible.

Keywords : Democracy; basic rights; legitimacy; climate catastrophe; non-interference.

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