2008-03-31

The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change

There are few issues of more importance to humanity than the prospect of profound climate change, but the ongoing public policy debate has not generally been placed within an ethical context.

Dr. Donald Brown of Penn State University and the Rock Ethics Institute presented on the ethical dimensions of climate change at the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with parts of the discussion captured in the following YouTube video:



Full details on the ethical dimensions discussed in the video can be found in the accompanying white paper (click link to open or download).

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