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SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Dawning of an Earth Ethic
So far we have failed to act on the scale or with the urgency required to avert the unfolding disaster of climate change. Why are ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Ethical Enhancement in an Age of Climate Change
The world is dashing toward greater and more devastating climate intensification. Nonetheless, opportunities for moral action abound.
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations
The climate problem is usually misdiagnosed as a traditional tragedy of the commons, but this obscures two deeper and distinctively ethical challenges. We must call ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Moral Collapse in a Warming World
When it comes to climate change, moral corruption prevails not because the situation is inherently murky, but because confusion has been deliberately sown.
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Three Questions on Climate Change
Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Changing Ethics of Climate Change
Traditional framings of climate change action being about future generations or simply another dimension of the North-South divide in global geopolitics are not irrelevant today, ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
A "Natural" Proposal for Addressing Climate Change
One of the fundamental challenges of climate change is that we contribute to it increment by increment, and experience it increment by increment after a ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Drones, Risk, and Perpetual Force
How should we conceptualize the use of missile-equipped uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) in the U.S. “war on terror”? If violence of this ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
This book provides a clear and plausible articulation of democracy’s central dilemma, paired with a far less definite treatment of its implications for the ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
The Vulnerable in International Society by Ian Clark
As Clark shows, order is much more than balancing, deterrence, diplomacy, peace, and war. How international society manages global problems should be of major concern ...