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International Climate Negotiations: A Guide for Ethics Teachers

Many of us want our teaching to connect to public affairs. Engaging with international climate negotiations can provide a rich array of examples of...
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Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change

Introduction The climate crisis is incredibly daunting. It is driven by an unsustainable international system for energy production. It indicts the fundamental organizing principles of...
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Three Ways to Bring Climate into Your Teaching

Addressing climate change is one of the mega-responsibilities of our lifetimes—and the lifetimes of our students. Philosophy offers excellent tools and relevant resources for...
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Socially Sustainable, Thoroughly Democratic Power

The people of California were understandably angry to learn that PG&E, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, ignored fire risks...

Creating Change for Students, Teachers, and the Discipline

It is easy to get bogged down by climate change and its accompanying symptoms: fires, drought, record temperatures, and flooding across the world. What...
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Community Building in an Online Conference

Climate activists often say: Organize your networks! Collective action and social movements have become crucial for an effective response to a growing climate emergency....
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The Case for Alternating In-Person and Virtual Conferences

In some countries such as the US, society is slowly beginning to return to a pre-pandemic normal. With a return to normal we can...
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Cultivating Climate Response-Ability

With each year, I find my students increasingly concerned about climate change.  A decade ago, their concerns seemed fairly general and abstract.  These days, they are...
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Introducing Climate Ethics and a New Climate Principle

Many of us are acutely aware that climate change exacerbates injustice: those who will suffer disproportionately are those in global precarity who have contributed...

The Point is to Change the World

“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways,” he famously said. “The point, however, is to change it.” Karl Marx penned these...