An Evaluation of Cripps’ Population-Tied Schemes

Abstract

As the world population reaches 7.8 billion in 2020, humanity’s ecological footprint has become one of major global concerns. In this essay, I will explain population-tied schemes for distributing costs to reduce the global ecological footprint as found in Cripps’s paper and discuss the issues related to them. I shall argue that a universal population-tied scheme is not morally defensible at the current stage, while a ‘tailored’ population-tied scheme with modifications is morally defensible.