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Robert Redford: Pope Francis Is Right, Climate Change Is a Moral Imperative
2015-10-04 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis address to Congress will go down in history as a day when the needle finally moved on climate change. The pontiffs timely message of more dialogue and less discord, respect for life in all of its stages, and a call to protect our common home was irrepressible and impossible to ignore. Sometimes you need a friend to tell you the truth. It took someone from outside the U.S. to come and remind us who we are--nd who we are supposed to be. The choice has never been clearer. If we carry...
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Climate change has a moral dimension that can't be ignored
2015-08-17 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: Religion and science both deal in mystery and wonder as we seek to make sense of the vastness of the world. There are times when the scale of the universe is too big. Its hard to fathom infinity; even a scale such as a hundred years can be difficult to digest. When faced with the topic of climate change, skepticism was a natural response. There was a time when more studies were appropriate. There was a time when it was reasonable to question if it was human-caused. There was a time when it was...
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We have a moral obligation on climate change
2015-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Sun-Times: Last month, Pope Francis reminded us all that the Earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone. In his encyclical, the pope laid out the threat that global climate change poses to that inheritance -- to the clean air, clean water, and healthy environment that are the foundations of our society. He called on every person living on this planet to join together in defense of our common home. President Barack Obama has also spoken to our moral obligation...
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Ball State University's moral stance against fossil fuel
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indy Star: A faculty member who has been critical of Ball State University for investing in fossil fuels is applauding the institution's investment policy changes. "I think we need to keep in mind that there is an emergency associated with climate change," John Vann, an associate professor of marketing, told The Star Press. "We're real close to being pushed over the tipping point where we have runaway global warming." Why is runaway global warming an emergency? "We're going to die," Vann said. "It could...
Climate Change Demands Moral Change
2015-06-29 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."" (cf. Gen 1:28). Whether or not you are religious, this iconic phrase from the Book of Genesis has had immense influence on the way you live. So much of what has come before you, be it Enlightenment thought, the Industrial Revolution, urbanization or otherwise, has been...
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