Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns
Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns
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能源决策被重新定义为正义和道德问题
作者：
Benjamin Sovacool;R. Heffron;D. McCauley;A. Goldthau
能源政策和技术的讨论往往局限于工程和经济领域。许多能源消费者，甚至分析师和政策制定者，在道德真空中面对和框定能源和气候风险，很少考虑更广泛的社会正义关切。在这里，为了弥补这一差距，我们调查了来自正义和伦理的概念如何通过将五个能源问题--核废料、非自愿重新安置、能源污染、能源贫困和气候变化--重新定位为紧迫的正义关切，从而为能源决策提供信息。最后，我们提出了一个以可获得性、可负担性、正当程序、透明度和问责制、可持续性、公平和责任为中心的能源正义框架，其中突出了能源生产和使用的未来、公平和公平层面。在做出有关能源的决定时，消费者和政策制定者通常会忽视道德问题，这可能会产生深远的社会后果。这一视角探讨了来自正义和伦理的想法如何提供一个框架，以重新考虑能源问题，并更好地为决策过程提供信息。
All too often, energy policy and technology discussions are limited to the domains of engineering and economics. Many energy consumers, and even analysts and policymakers, confront and frame energy and climate risks in a moral vacuum, rarely incorporating broader social justice concerns. Here, to remedy this gap, we investigate how concepts from justice and ethics can inform energy decision-making by reframing five energy problems — nuclear waste, involuntary resettlement, energy pollution, energy poverty and climate change — as pressing justice concerns. We conclude by proposing an energy justice framework centred on availability, affordability, due process, transparency and accountability, sustainability, equity and responsibility, which highlights the futurity, fairness and equity dimensions of energy production and use. When making decisions about energy, consumers and policymakers typically overlook moral issues, which can have profound societal consequences. This Perspective explores how ideas from justice and ethics can provide a framework to reconsider energy problems and better inform decision-making processes.