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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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    Brian Wynne: Climate Scientism and Public Policy

    by Howard Silverman

    Scientism is the ingrained assumption that scientific evidence is the only authority that can justify policy action.

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    Talking about Design for Resilience

    by Howard Silverman

    Design is an idealistic enterprise. Design is concerned with how things ought to be.

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    Sheila Jasanoff: Public Faith in Climate Science

    by Howard Silverman

    The IPCC has demonstrated that it can learn and change. That ingenuity should be directed toward building relationships of trust and respect with global citizens.

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    media library

    Naomi Oreskes: On Scientific Knowledge

    History shows us clearly that science does not provide certainty. It does not provide truth. What it provides us with is the consensus of experts.

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    Anthony Giddens: Climate Change Politics

    We've got to find a way back to the politics of the long term. Planning was not effective in Soviet-style situations and went out of vogue. But you can't have a 20-30 year perspective on politics without planning in some sense.

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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
    September 03, 2010

    • Climate Science and National Security
    • Premises for a New Economy: An Agenda for Rio+20
    • Harvey Brooks: Science and Society
    • Matthew Nisbet: Science Communication
    • Benjamin Barber: Functions of Political Talk

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