Abstract
This paper outlines a moral framework for the debate on global population policy. Questions of population, climate justice and global justice are morally inseparable and failure to address them as such has dangerous implications. Considerations of population lend additional urgency to existing collective duties to act on global poverty and climate change. Choice-providing procreative policies are a key part of that. However, even were we collectively to fulfil these duties, we would face morally hard choices over whether to introduce incentive-changing procreative policies. Thus, there is now no possible collective course of action which is not morally problematic.
Highlights
This paper outlines a moral framework for the debate on global population policy
Considerations of population lend additional urgency to existing collective duties to act on global poverty and climate change
It is morally crucial that we address the population question but crucial that this be done in the right way
Summary
This paper outlines a moral framework for the debate on global population policy. Questions of population, climate justice and global justice are morally inseparable and failure to address them as such has dangerous implications. Even were we collectively to fulfil these duties, we would face morally hard choices over whether to introduce incentive-changing procreative policies. Since it would be morally terrible to sacrifice the basic interests of either current or future humans, they would face a tragic choice at the collective level.
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