Abstract Climate change poses the most complex, profound, and important environmental justice issue that we have yet encountered. Some people are imposing harms and risks on other people who are far from them in time and space. The same people are also causing death and extinction to a great deal of non-human nature. Although these facts are well established it is difficult for us to capture them in the traditional discourses of rights, duties, justice, and responsibility. I will argue that in light of this the usual model of environmental justice should be revised. The most plausible revision, I will suggest, will lead us back to perennial questions about the human relationship to nature and what constitutes a good life.