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Let's not forget the moral case for climate action
2013-11-20 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Those of us in the business of advocating urgent action on climate change are well practised at using a wide set of evidence based, rational arguments in support of our cause. And, my goodness, there's a lot of them, as demonstrated in the news stories and comment pieces appearing on a daily basis through media channels such as BusinessGreen. There's the whole Nick Stern type argument which, if boiled down to a tweet goes something like; "There's nothing cheap about runaway #climatechange. Tackling...
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Boulder's moral mission on greenhouse gases
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Boulder has been gearing up this summer to wage perhaps the nation's most aggressive campaign to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a campaign that officials suggest will last for decades. As it proceeds, the city will become a fascinating test of whether a community can achieve huge GHG reductions while remaining an attractive place for commerce and without imposing regulation so meddlesome and overreaching that it tramples on personal liberty. But surely, you protest, neither of these outcomes...
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Porn, the UK and Search Engines' 'Moral Duty'
2013-08-03 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Britain's crusade against online pornography has ramped up. Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech saying the pornography was "corroding childhood" and declared that every household in the UK should have pornography blocked by Internet service providers -- unless, that is, the homeowners specifically opt in to pornographic content.
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Louie Sent Me: A Listener's Guide to Moral Decay
2013-06-01 22:06:48| Beverages - Topix.net
As we reported on CTV National News , this year marks half a century since The Kingsmen recorded their famous song "Louie Louie." And for two of those fifty years, the track was under scrutiny by the FBI for fear that its famously unintelligible lyrics contained a hidden message, calculated to corrupt the youth of the nation.
Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one
2013-05-21 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour, which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves...
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