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Now What? Bioethics and Mitigating Climate Disasters

For those committed to realistic responses to our current climate crisis, the results of the presidential election are a major step backward. Announcements of cabinet choices for the second Trump...
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Do Your Part to Address Climate Change: Vote

How we can help reduce emissions at the scale needed to avert the worst of climate change? Vote for leaders who value emissions reduction and carbon neutrality and vote against those who discount, greenwash, or oppose it.
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Catastrophe Ethics and Charitable Giving

How can we live a morally decent life in a time of massive, structural threats that seem to implicate us at every turn? Climate change is the paradigm example. Am I permitted to fly? Should I buy an electric car? Go vegan?
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Philanthropy is Not Enough: Oil and Gas Giants Must Consider Medical Ethics

Given the well-known environmental and health risks of oil and gas drilling, oil and gas giants that enter developing nations routinely offset these risks with charitable investments. Are these investments sufficient? Do the funds go where they are needed? Answering this question raises ethical issues that need greater attention.
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An Evergreen Metaphor: Strachan Donnelley, Dan Callahan, and Environmental Ethics

The devastation of Hurricane Ida and the global threats of climate change are not on the fringe of bioethics. They call to mind the language of priority-setting typical of bioethics discourse. Who lives and who dies? What can be accomplished with prevention and more levees? And if more are built, how do we set priorities with limited resources?
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Living Good and Healthy Lives on a Changing Earth: What Should Bioethics Do?

What does it mean to live well on a warming planet? And as the climate changes, how might health care, education, and other sectors support, or obstruct, our ability to respond? The answers to these profound, and profoundly bioethical, questions will critically influence human well-being in this century and beyond. A group of scientists, educators, and bioethicists convened at The Hastings Center recently to consider these questions and begin an interdisciplinary conversation on how bioethics might address the challenges posed by climate change.
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Fix the Planet, or Change the Creatures In It?

Possibly as many as half of the coral reefs that existed 100 years ago have been destroyed, sometimes by removing them, covering them up, or blowing them up, but mostly...
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The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion

After years of fluctuating and troubled efforts, the nations of the world in December of 2015 came to the remarkable agreement to work together to reduce global warming. On June...
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