by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The morning after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accords, this old climate warrior climbed out of bed feeling better about the chances of the sizzling, souring world than I have for months. Not just feeling better, feeling positively energized....
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
When a fearsome storm is bearing down on a great ship – the first winds shuddering in the sails, the first waves burying the bowsprit, sullen clouds obscuring the horizon – the captain shouts the order. “All hands on deck.” Every sailor knows...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Concerned ecologists recently made the case for the ecological urgency of action to save the world’s terrestrial megafauna (Ripple et al. 2016). These large mammals, desperately endangered by human depredation and habitat destruction, are critical to the functioning...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
“The Moral Case for Divestment from Fossil Fuels” I’ve just returned from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Gustavus is a pretty campus in the rain, with blue and yellow banners flapping to celebrate their MAYDAY! Symposium on divestment...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
In their arguments against divesting from fossil fuels, Ivy League presidents offer a lesson in sophistry. It pains this old logic professor to read university officials’ arguments against divesting from fossil fuels — not because their refusal to divest...
