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...
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 admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Breaking all records for brevity, Kathleen gave a rousing three-minute commencement speech, when she accepted an Honorary Degree in Humane Letters from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry last weekend. Here is what she said:...
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...