by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
When Pope Francis framed climate change as a moral problem and issued a call to conscience, he played a powerful card. That’s because a moral argument trumps – that is, negates the power of — the usual, self-serving responses, like “reducing carbon...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
New Sculpture at the Matthew Knight Arena is High, Wide – and Deep We get only a flickering glimpse of reality, Plato wrote two thousand years ago in a famous passage now called the Allegory of the Cave. The images we see are like the shadows of moving figures cast by...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kathleen’s speech at the People’s Climat March Rally: This is a bad day for pipelines and export terminals and tankers and coal trains. This is a bad day for the Koch Brothers, and Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil and anyone else who would trade the...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Check out Kathleen’s ferocious essay “The Ethics of Adaptation to Global Warming” at https://humansandnature.org/earth-ethic-kathleen-dean-moore/ “I want to call attention to the danger that the same moral failings that characterize climate...
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same moral principles: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. An economic system that forces the people...
