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  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Environmental Science

Background:

  • Traditional intergenerational justice focuses on present-to-future influence.
  • Long-term projects like radioactive waste management involve complex temporal dependencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Explore ethical implications of transgenerational projects.
  • Analyze intergenerational domination through neo-republican theory.
  • Propose a threefold generational framework (current, subsequent, remote generations).

Main Methods:

  • Neo-republican theory application.
  • Threefold generational framework (current generation, subsequent generations, remote generations).
  • Comparative analysis of geological disposal and interim storage.

Main Results:

  • Subsequent generations (SGs) possess latent power over current and remote generations (RGs).
  • Minimizing domination for one group may increase it for another.
  • Reversibility and retrievability are key for intergenerational contestability.

Conclusions:

  • Autonomy redefined as non-domination, not just access to options.
  • Ethical concern is structural subordination, not material harm.
  • Revised framework for evaluating transgenerational project legitimacy.