The kids are right when it comes to climate change, says an ethicist: adults have a moral and ethical responsibility to take the necessary actions to stop climate change.
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Economic and political assessments of climate change have for years helped justify inaction. Now, young environmentalists worldwide are shifting the debate to focus on values, ethics and justice.
Few feel the pain of the Great Barrier Reef’s decline more acutely than the scientists trying to save it. Ahead of a UN climate summit, two researchers write of their grief, and hope.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
The effects of climate change will disproportionately affect the world’s poorest, risking the lives and health of millions of people located mainly in the Global South.
Zara, a fast-fashion clothing company, recently pledged to produce its line using only sustainable textiles. But it is not enough to curb the company’s significant impact on climate change.
Greenland’s ice made headlines in June, as warm weather made for unseasonably widespread melting. And though this summer is still unfolding, the human fingerprint on Greenland’s ice can’t be denied.
Sydney has joined more than 600 local governments around the world – as well as the national governments of the UK and Canada – in putting the climate crisis at the heart of all policy decisions.
If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
Given the severe impact animal-based food production has on the environment, and the trend for vegan products, wouldn’t it make sense for all new vegetarian product ranges simply to be made vegan?
Can new language change the way the public and politicians perceive the hazards of the Earth’s changing climate?
Strengthening the language on climate change can help, but journalists should cover its inspiring solutions, too.
The climate crisis is a complex scientific problem. New systems have to be developed through democratic systemic reforms.
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Professor of Law, University College Cork
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Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Brighton
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Lecturer in English Literature, Swansea University
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Lecturer in Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Central Lancashire
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Business & Society, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University
