There are clear signs e.g. here, here and here that rapid climate change is no longer a possibility that can be dismissed. Indeed, if the analogy of a boiling kettle being a tipping point that is preceded by fizzing as an indicator that the water is about to boil is relevant, current indications might mean that rapid and even runaway climate change is upon us.
Read more >>Author: Mark Charlesworth
Dr Mark Charlesworth is Programme Leader for Geography at Bishop Grosseteste University. He is a human geographer and a leading expert on policy responses to rapid and abrupt climate change. His discussion of sustainable development published in 2015 is a leading recent account from a transdisciplinary perspective which includes a deeper discussion of ecological virtue.
Ecological virtue
Pope Francis discusses ecological virtue in Laudato si and provides illustrations of what it might be, in many cases very beautifully; however, he does not provide a systematic account of ecological virtue. That is the aim of this article based on the virtue scheme of Saint Thomas Aquinas. As a prelude to that, it should be noted that all the world religions and many environmental organisations speak in similar terms.
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