August 2011 Blog Posts (2)
Climate Change: The Parochial Hurdle
Few issues have global ethical implications like climate change, yet parochial concerns routinely sabotage coordination of a global solution. New research indicates that cognitive biases and boomerang effects are partially to blame, and that in the United States they correspond to partisan divides.
As Matthew Nisbet reports for Big Think, "Previous…
Added by Evan O'Neil on August 23, 2011 at 5:41pm — No Comments
Marching Towards a Global Society
In his 2009 TED talk, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlines the guiding sense of global ethics at our moment in history. Here he is in his own words:
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Can I say how delighted I am to be away from the calm of Westminster and Whitehall?
This is Kim, a nine-year-old Vietnam girl, her back ruined by napalm, and she awakened the conscience of the nation…
ContinueAdded by Carnegie Council on August 3, 2011 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment
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