From Essays in Philosophy, a special issue on climate ethics, including Holly Wilson (ULS): Divine Sovereignty and the Global Climate Change Debate; Ruth Irwin (AUT): Climate Change and Heidegger's Philosophy of Science; Bellarmine Nneji (SWS): Eco-Responsibility: The Cogency for Environmental Ethics in Africa; Philip Cafaro (CSU): Economic Growth or the Flourishing of Life: The Ethical Choice Climate Change Puts to Humanity; and Casey Rentmeester (USF): A Kantian Look at Climate Change. 350 Degrees of Inseparability: The good news about the very bad news (about climate change). Should geoengineering tests be governed by the principles of medical ethics? From FDL, a book salon on Bill McKibben's Eaarth. Climate science's chinese whispers: The books that separate global warming fact from fiction. An interview with David Shukman on books on environmental change. Lance Newman suggests ecocriticism shares a problematic assumption with "green" capitalism: the idea "a livable future will result from billions of individual ethical decisions". Emerging technologies may be able to help, but understanding the full consequences of what we are doing — especially if large-scale efforts at geoengineering are undertaken — will be extraordinarily challenging. Skeptics cite 700 “scientists” who doubt global warming, except few are climatologists — they’re conducting the greatest disinformation campaign in history. Earth 2300, too hot for humans: Most climate models we hear about only predict temperature rise by 2100 — when you look further ahead things get very worrying. The crisis comes ashore: Al Gore on why the oil spill could change everything. Going back to our roots: The green movement needs to revisit its fundamental principles; including (and especially) "Small is beautiful".
