In Hopes of "Getting Our Act Together"

Anne Schwenkenbecher's book, Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations, provides us with tools that help us address what are clearly some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, a global public health crisis, and the absence of democratic legitimacy. She manages to move deftly between real-world examples and carefully-constructed thought experiments to explain her view of how collectives can be, and be held, morally responsible. The forward-looking view of responsibility, rather than the 1nore common backward-looking view, allows us to use the view to encourage individuals and collectives to aim for the best outcomes.