Summary

• Autores: Nicole Hassoun
• Localización: Analysis, ISSN-e 1467-8284, Vol. 74, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 87-90
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A few years ago, when I was doing some research with the Philippines Community Organizers’ Society, I met a woman I call Tamil who was living at the Smokey Mountain waste facility. Her children survived by picking up garbage and selling it to recyclers. It was striking to see how they were living in light of the fact that, like about half of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – Tamil’s family lived on less than the equivalent of what two dollars a day buys in the USA. As globalization shrinks distance and brings people around the world into closer contact, it raises a pressing question of global justice: What ‘if any' obligations are there to aid the global poor? The first half of Globalization and Global Justice tries to answer this question. There are several straightforward arguments for the conclusion that those of us in the developed world are obligated to help the global poor. Many object, however, that this requires some to sacrifice their freedom for others.

    The first half of Globalization and Global Justice suggests that it is precisely so that no one has to sacrifice their freedom for others that there are significant obligations to the global poor. It argues, roughly, as follows: