Archive - Earthling - Climate Ethics

This is How We Fail

In 2015, almost all countries signed the Paris Agreement, promising to limit their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions so that global temperature increases…

Apr 22 •

August 2023

Stop Oil and Gas Production

We need to stop burning fossil fuels. This is the fundamental change we need to make to halt increased climate disruption. The fossil-fuel industry…

Aug 24, 2023 •

July 2023

Independence Day

The Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 2023 •

June 2023

Religion and Climate Change

Religion and Climate Change A recent poll by the Pew Research Center examines Americans’ opinions about climate change and correlates those opinions…

Jun 14, 2023 •

May 2023

Some of our actions, such as taking airplanes to distant locations, directly cause climate change. But we participate less directly in many other…

May 24, 2023 •

Apple.tv's Climate series is a disappointment for climate advocates

May 1, 2023 •

April 2023

California Population

California’s current population is about 40 million. According to the latest projections from the California Department of Finance, the state’s…

Apr 13, 2023 •

March 2023

IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers

The latest authoritative summary of climate change

Mar 21, 2023 •

Announcing new book: Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene

Mar 1, 2023 •

August 2021

Barry Lopez — an Appreciation

Barry Lopez, one of the great nature writers of our time, passed away on Christmas, 2020, at the age of 75. His greatest book was Arctic…

Aug 23, 2021 •

September 2020

Looking Back from the Year 3030

What will it be like for a person living in the year 3030 to look back through history to this year, 2020? A perspective from 3030 is…

Sep 27, 2020 •

Unions and the Environment

Today is Labor Day, a holiday created in the late 19th century to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and…

Sep 7, 2020 •

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