‘To Love What, In This Case, Remains’: On Remorse and Moral Responsiveness

Danielle Celermajer’s critique of the prevailing conceptions of justice when applied to the threat of climate catastrophe revolves around an alternative conception of responsibility. At issue, for Celermajer, is not so much the adoption of a notion of responsibility that is adequate in the extent of its legal application—its ability, say, to hold perpetrators to account—but rather one that evinces the proper degree of responsiveness to the reality of all that has been lost, and what further stands to be lost.