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“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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Clumsy Responses to Wicked Climate Problems

The term ‘clumsy institution’ was coined as a way of escaping from the idea that, when faced with contradictory definitions of problem and solution, we must choose one and reject the rest.

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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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350.org

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

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on the wire
July 30, 2010