Protecting the planet for future children might mean having fewer children.
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You can donate to environmental charities and even purchase carbon offsets, but not having an additional child typically has a much greater impact.
Pope Francis cleans the sky from pollution in graffiti by the artist Maupal, inspired by ‘Laudato Si.’
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Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the environment.
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A new work of environmental ethics argues that the constitutive value of natural places can be understood in the language of rights.
The Paraguayan Chaco, South America’s second largest forest, is rapidly disappearing as agriculture extends deeper into what was once forest. Here, isolated stands of trees remain amid the farms.
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The cleared land of Paraguay’s Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
The El Segundo Chevron oil refinery, right, and the Bom Futuro National Forest, left.
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California’s new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy answers.
Young environmentalists are putting the ethical dimensions of climate change at the center of a global debate that has historically focused on politics, efficiency and cost-benefits analysis.
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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.
Textile waste a major source of landfill and pollution.
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While fashion companies and governments are making commitments to reduce fashion waste, consumers have an opportunity to push them to act more quickly.
Whooping cranes, a critically endangered species, breed in one location, a wetland in Wood Buffalo National Park. Yet a federal-provincial review panel has approved an oilsands mine that could kill some of the birds.
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Are our brains wired to favour growth over environmentally rational decisions?