Sentences with phrase «civilization challenging»

Yet hardly any nations are explaining their national ghg emissions reductions commitments on the basis of how they are congruent with their equitable obligations and the international media for the most part is ignoring this vital part of this civilization challenging drama unfolding in Warsaw.

And so, climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice and no matter what ethical considerations are taken into account to define an arguably distributively just allocation of ghg emissions targets among nations, many national commitments utterly and obviously flunk any ethical test.

For this reason, climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice.

In fact there is no evidence that the US press understands the policy significance for the US if climate change is understood as a civilization challenging global distributive justice problem.

(See, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

(IPCC, 2007: 776)(Also see, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

We would agree that climate change raises some civilization challenging ethical questions about which different respectable ethical theories might reach different conclusions about what should be done.

Given the civilization challenging nature of climate change, many observers of the failure of governments to respond to the threat of climate change have concluded that creating a strong social movement on climate change is the best hope of preventing catastrophic harm from human - induced warming given the enormity of the challenge facing the world.

And so, although climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice, the US media has largely ignored the justice issues particularly in regard to their significance for US policy.

The civilization challenging nature of the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to prevent dangerous climate change

Significance of Understanding Climate Change as A Civilization Challenging Ethical Issue.

If the US press has not been corrupted by the economic interests of the United States, the only plausible explanation for the US media's failure to cover the ethical issues raised by climate change is that the reporter's covering climate change don't understand the civilization challenging ethical issues raised by climate change.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Because climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions, any proposed climate change regime must be examined through an ethical lens.

One might ask why the US media is failing to cover the obvious ethical questions raised by climate change issues given that the ethical issues have profound consequences for climate change policy and climate change raises obvious civilization challenging ethical issues.

Ethics and climate has explained in numerous articles on this site why climate change policy raises civilization challenging ethical issues which have practical significance for policy - making.

The US Media's Grave Failure To Communicate The Significance of Understanding Climate Change as A Civilization Challenging Ethical Issue.

Without doubt, there are several reasons why climate change must be understood essentially as a civilization challenging ethical problem.

The fact that climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical problem, an understanding that is of profound significance for climate change policy formation.

Given the enormity and harshness of impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world from climate change coupled with the fact that United States has a special responsibility for the civilization challenging problem because of the comparatively large levels of the emissions coming from America, the failure of the US media to describe strength the scientific consensus on change is a grave and tragic error.

And so President Obama admitted that: (a) climate change is a civilization challenging problem with dire potential consequences for nations and vulnerable people around the world, (b) the world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming, and, (c) the United States has responsibility for causing the problem.

Brown, D. (2012a) «The US media's grave failure to communicate the significance of understanding climate change as a civilization challenging ethical issue», ethicsandclimate.org, http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climate/2012/10/31/the-us-medias-grave-failure-to-communicate-the-significance-of-understanding-climate-change-as-a-civilization-challenging-ethical-issue/, accessed 22 July 2014

And so the world is now facing a civilization challenging problem entailed by the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gases to avoid catastrophic climate change.

In this regard, the staggering enormity of the current challenge to the world to prevent dangerous climate change is rarely commented on in the US media despite the fact the 25 year delay in facing this problem has now made the problem a civilization challenging problem.

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

While it is proving difficult to shut down the oil flow from the Deepwater Horizon site, the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to prevent dangerous climate change is truly civilization challenging.

This post identifies twenty questions that the US press has failed to ask opponents of proposed US climate change policies that should be asked if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical issues.

In fact there are several distinct features of climate change call for its recognition as creating civilization challenging ethical questions.

The purpose of this exercise is to get them to understand that how you see climate change depends upon where you sit in the world and that climate change can not be understood without seeing it as civilization challenging ethical problem.

Not exact matches

Habitat destruction, unchecked population growth, global warming and other challenges of modern civilization have put humanity at risk.

Perhaps the most provocative recent challenge to the idea of Judeo - Christian civilization came from Columbia University's Richard W. Bulliet in his book» The Case for Islamo - Christian Civilizacivilization came from Columbia University's Richard W. Bulliet in his book» The Case for Islamo - Christian CivilizationCivilization.»

It is this naïveté that The Handmaid's Tale addresses with its appended «historical» commentary, challenging us to think about something otherwise difficult to see: the relationship between the crises of our civilization and its historic textual politics — the continuing story of who controls, legitimates, engenders and eliminates whom and what through the power of authoritative language, grounded in the Word.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

The solution of this problem of cultural conflict and disintegration is perhaps the major challenge to modern civilization.

Western civilization is not lost beyond the possibility of salvation, not yet irrevocably doomed to death, if we can find the right answer to the almost overwhelming challenge which the future offers to our time, in the form of purposeful, vital and inspiring images of the future.

Among the primitive tribes which were isolated from civilization and from any challenge to their religion, Islam has stagnated.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Civilization developed where people were challenged, where they had to work together to bring food out of the ground, where without irrigation the earth would bring forth nothing.

Examining the future, Sacred Causes is sober about international terrorism (the subject of Burleigh's next book) and the other challenges facing civilization.

It may be some new challenge to our civilization, such as that posed by Islam, that will serve as a catalyst for a new Christian solidarity with implications for ecclesial unity.

He reviews the distant past to trace how Western civilization's move into the modern era challenged traditional religious beliefs.

Zionist theory challenged this veneration of political weakness, and Zionist practice was intended to construct a political structure that would defend the Jewish people and Jewish civilization.

Even more than the Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism rose to the challenge and came to the year 1914 with improved morale in Western Europe, with a mounting effect on civilization, and with relatively a more extensive geographic expansion than any other branch of Christianity.

Even if well - prepared adventurers can overcome all these challenges, there's still a civilization - stopping hurdle that science has barely explored: Can we procreate in space?

Developing clean and renewable sources of energy is one of the greatest challenges of our civilization.

Even for a civilization that built the pyramids, these expeditions would have been a tremendous logistical challenge.

To grasp the challenge, consider a schema introduced in the 1960s by Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev that classified civilizations according to their energy consumption.

Although searching for alien civilizations may be one of the most publicly appealing topics in all of astronomy, it does not pay well, if at all, and attracting new researchers to the fold had been challenging.