UNWTO and Spain have come together to organize the First International Congress on Ethics and Tourism, to address some of the most
pressing ethical issues currently facing the tourism sector (15 - 16 September, Madrid, Spain).
They will discuss the most
pressing ethical issues facing the field of stem cell research as it moves toward the clinic.
Not exact matches
All this singular fixation, over and above so many more
pressing social and
ethical issues.
Many writers consider existing or emerging
ethical issues in the mass media, including the
press, television, and radio.
See Mark Ellingsen, The Cutting Edge: How churches Speak on Social and
Ethical Issues (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., (1993); Ronald H. Preston, Religion and the Ambiguities of Capitalism (London: SCM
Press, 1991) and Robert L. Stivers, ed., Reformed Faith and Economics (Lanhain: University
Press of America, by arrangement with the Advisory Council on Church and Society of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. 1989).
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Ethical issues are very
pressing because they immediately affect the human being,» de Toca answers.
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.
With very few exceptions, the US
press has utterly failed to cover climate change as an
ethical and moral
issue while focusing on the scientific and economic arguments against taking action that have been made by opponents of US climate change policies for almost 30 years.
As we have noted over and over again in regard to the US media coverage of the US response to climate change, the US
press is utterly failing to cover
ethical issues entailed by opposition to climate change policies in the United States.
The Collaborative Program on the
Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
Issues Report to
Press at COP - 15
In this post we look at the failure of the US
press to communicate about the significance for policy of seeing climate change as an
ethical issue.
At a
press conference on December 11, EDCC
issued the following statement about the
ethical dimensions of
issues on the Copenhagen negotiating agenda and the failure of some nations to approach the Copenhagen negotiating agenda as an
ethical issue.
There has been almost no coverage in the American
press about the
ethical duties of governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals to reduce the threat of climate change other than occasional general assertions by some activists or members of a religious groups referring to climate change as a moral
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.