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Featured Voices speak to ideas that connect us. Each serves as the centerpiece for an issue of P&P.

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    “One Person, One Share” of the Atmosphere

    by Peter Singer

    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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    Mar 25, 2009
    Tags: ethics, climate
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    Resilience Thinking

    by Brian Walker

    Life is full of surprises. Sometimes we take them in stride; some times they trip us up. Resilience thinking offers a fresh way of understanding the world around us and of managing our natural resources.

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    Nov 24, 2008
    Tags: social-ecological
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    featured voices

    “One Person, One Share” of the Atmosphere

    by Peter Singer March 25, 2009

    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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    What We Talk about When We Talk about Climate

    by Howard Silverman

    What we talk about when we talk about climate is the story of social-ecological relationships, with all their uncertainties and fact-value entanglements.

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    Seeking Climate Reconciliation

    by Howard Silverman

    Under business-as-usual climate projections, many of today’s children would grow up to become both perpetrators and victims.

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    Climate Change as a Perfect Moral Storm

    by Stephen Gardiner

    Climate change brings together global and intergenerational challenges to our ability to behave ethically.

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    media library

    Climate, Worldviews and Cultural Theory

    This typology plots acceptance of social controls against levels of social commitment to derive four worldviews.

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    Climate, Information, Perception and Behavior

    Connie Roser-Renouf and Matthew Nisbet survey and evaluate a wide range of studies on climate-change related values, opinions, perceptions, preferences, knowledge and behavior.

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    our compass

    350.org

    350.org is an international campaign to build a worldwide movement for climate action.

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    on the wire
    March 11, 2010

    • Bruce Johnsen: Indigenous Knowledge Management | Ecology and Society
    • Richerson and Boyd: Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force | NYT
    • Amory Lovins: Soft Energy Values
    • Stewart Brand Reflects | Sustainable Industries
    • John Christy: Wiki-IPCC | Nature

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