Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE): A new power and platform to fostering green obligation for climate peace and justice

TL;DR

This paper introduces Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE), a novel AI-driven platform designed to foster global climate peace and justice by promoting environmental empathy and decentralized cooperation, addressing limitations of traditional top-down approaches.

Contribution

It proposes a new AI-based model of environmental empathy (IEE) that enables bottom-up climate justice efforts, overcoming failures of authoritarian international cooperation.

Findings

IEE empowers local actors to promote climate justice.

Decentralized AI platform helps prevent free-riding in environmental efforts.

Initial impact on citizens and city planners, with potential global influence.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE) as a new driver for climate peace and justice, as an emerging issue in the age of big data. We first show that the authoritarian top-down intergovernmental cooperation, through international organizations (e.g., UNEP) for climate justice, could not overcome environmental issues and crevices so far. We elaborate on four grounds of climate injustice (i.e., teleological origin, axiological origin, formation cause, and social epistemic cause), and explain how the lack of empathy and environmental motivation on a global scale causes the failure of all the authoritarian top-down intergovernmental cooperation. Addressing all these issues requires a new button-up approach to climate peace and justice. Secondly, focusing on the intersection of AI, environmental empathy, and climate justice, we propose a model of Intelligent Environmental Empathy (IEE) for climate peace and justice at the operational level. IEE is empowered by the new power of environmental empathy (as a driver of green obligation for climate justice) and putative decentralized platform of AI (as an operative system against free riders), which Initially, impact citizens and some middle-class decision makers, such as city planners and local administrators, but will eventually affect global decision-makers as well.