Tag: morality tale
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Paul Collier on Moralistic Conceptualizations of Climate Change
From Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet: Why we must – and how we can – manage nature for global prosperity: … The moral discourse on global warming starts from the attribution of blame, or, to return to the caricature of medieval Christian theology, of guilt. Industrial capitalism is guilty of polluting the world with carbon…
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Greenhouse Simplicities
Newsweek: Greenhouse Simplicities by Paul Samuelson. Maybe you saw Newsweek's recent cover story concerning global warming called The Truth About Denial. Personally, I can't remember reading a more impudent and vitriolic news article (as opposed to an opinion piece) in a major news magazine in a long time. I love Samuelson's response. It hits the…