In response to: David McDermott Hughes ’89 on Climate Change as a Moral Issue
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
For a historical perspective see: "A Political Theology of Climate Change," by Michael S. Northcott (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2015), which traces the conflicting theological, philosophical, scientific, economic and political ideas about Earth and its climate, and concludes that ALL nations (to avoid cheating) have the moral responsibility to require that fossil fuels be kept in the ground to avoid disaster, although he doesn't have much hope of it happening.
https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=7098