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Peter Singer: Refocusing Medical Research | Project Syndicate
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
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Financing Climate Adaptation | Business Standard (India)
The lack of equity is obvious when nearly 500 million who have not used electricity or petroleum products in India will suffer without having a clue about what has hit them and why.
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One Planet, One Chance
"One Planet, One Chance" is an eight minute Flash movie of Magnum photographs with music commissioned by the UNDP.
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Barry Schwartz: Practical Wisdom | TED
Practical wisdom, Aristotle told us, is the combination of moral will and moral skill.
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John Gray: Is Capitalism Moral? | The American Interest
The underlying moral message of the crisis, it seems to me, is not about capitalism but about utopias.
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“One Person, One Share” of the Atmosphere
For most of human existence, people living only short distances apart might as well have been living in separate worlds. As a result, our moral intuitions evolved to deal with problems within our community, rather than with the impact of our actions on those far away.
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The Ethics of Climate Change
The consequences of climate change will challenge us to reshape and reform our concepts of individual and political morality.
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Evolution and the Ethical Brain | Templeton Foundation
Jonathan Haidt: Just as we have five different kinds of taste buds, my research suggests there are at least five different kinds of or sets of moral intuitions that we can identify.
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Daniel Pauly: Toward a Conservation Ethics for the Sea
I believe that we will get out of the biodiversity crisis only if we embed the fauna and flora around us into a mythology, a shared ethics of the sea, one that could be shared among all people on Earth.
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Jonathan Haidt on Moral Impulses | Miller-McCune
Haidt identified five foundational moral impulses: harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, in-group loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity.
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The Ethics of Geoengineering
At least three important ethical considerations come to bear: the importance of democratic decision-making, the prohibition against irreversible changes, and the significance of learning to live with nature.
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Carolyn Raffensperger: Legal Guardianship for Future Generations
The emerging ecological and climate change cases, particularly those that are global in scale and intergenerational in scope, will turn on economic issues, be accompanied by vast scientific uncertainty, and have enormous societal ramifications.
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development | Global Humanitarian Forum
Resilience in the face of climate change must be added as an additional pillar to the concept of sustainable development.
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Donald Brown: Duty on Climate Action Acknowledged in Scottish Parliament
Before I spoke, a Scottish Parliamentarian made an argument that I have never heard any US politician make. The Parliamentarian argued that Scotland should adopt this tough new legislation even though it might be expensive because the Scotts had an obligation to the rest of the world to do so.
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Climate Change as a Perfect Moral Storm
Climate change brings together global and intergenerational challenges to our ability to behave ethically.
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Meme Brief: Environmental Philosophy
I put together a one-page handout on key ideas and terminology in environmental philosophy.
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Andrew Light: Pragmatism and Climate Change
I wanted to create a form of pragmatism that allowed environmental ethicists to make a contribution.
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Andrew Light: Pragmatism and Climate Change
I wanted to create a form of pragmatism that allowed environmental ethicists to make a contribution.
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Marc Hauser: Champions of Plurality | Edge
Living a moral life requires us to be restless with our present moral norms, always challenging us to discover what might and ought to be.
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