Saturday, September 26, 2009

We Must Engage the Ethical Dimension of Combating Climate Change, Religious & Civil Society Groups Urge


by Matthew McDermott
TreeHugger
September 23, 2009

It sometimes seems that all of the convincing that's done to try to get faster action on climate change has to do with the 'what's in it for me' aspect of the issue -- create green jobs, profit from the new green economy, stop sea level rise from overtaking your city -- or on the stats of the issue. But as a new plea to world leaders under the banner of Bahá'í International Community, but signed onto by 20 or so other groups, rightly says there's also a very important moral and ethical dimension to preventing climate change. The full text of the Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Appeal to World Leaders is at that link, but this is the crux of it:

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