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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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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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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