Undemocratic Climate Protests.
Climate change activists sometimes engage in protests that exert coercion on governments, businesses, and citizens, instead of protests that just attempt to persuade them. I argue that these coercive protests are sometimes undemocratic, despite recent attempts in the literature to describe them as d...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 162 - 180 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2022
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