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Eco-Business and Community Ethics

The Environmental Blog

The electricity produced by renewable resources is cleaner than the electricity produced by coal-fired power generation because it does not emit carbon into the atmosphere that causes global warming and pollution to Earth. Some technologies progress independently of political support.

Ethics 392
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Why and How to Hold Corporations More Accountable for the Fight Against Global Warming

Unsustainable

A guide to holding corporations more accountable as mounting concerns about climate change and global warming reach their highest levels yet.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Approximately twenty years after the publication of UNESCO’s Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations towards Future Generations, the need to protect the earth for the future generations has finally received a significant consideration in the field of ethics. 3. Application of Ethics.

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? Is it ethical to even research such technologies?

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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A year of editing at The Conversation

Martin LaMonica

Much environmental news came from the West this year: California’s punishing drought , the rise of a giant El Niño , the warm “blob” in the Pacific Ocean that’s wreaking havoc in surprising ways and the devastating wildfire season. El Niño what it will bring this year and how it could change with global warming.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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