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ClimateEthics.org Named One of Time/CNN's Top 15 Green Web Sites

In its April 28, 2008, online issue, Time/CNN named the Rock Ethics Institute's Web site on climate change, ClimateEthics.org, one of the top 15 Web sites  addressing environmental issues. The 10-month old site, a joint venture with RealClimate.org, looks at the ethical questions raised by climate change.

 

"Climate-change solutions lie beyond self-interest"

by Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law, as published in the Patriot-News, April 6, 2008.

Unlike many other states, Pennsylvania has no climate-change strategy. This is a moral and ethical failure. Yet the ethical duties of Pennsylvanians to reduce their carbon footprint are not part of the current political debate.

In his movie "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore says three times that climate change is a moral problem, but does not say what kind of moral problem it is or what makes global warming a moral problem. Climate change is a clear moral problem for three reasons:

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