Word: moralisms
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...points of difference between the Labor Party and the Liberal-National government is over whether Australia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, thereby committing the nation to reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions. Labor leader Kevin Rudd calls climate change "the moral challenge of our generation" and says he will sign on to Kyoto "without delay" if his 10-point poll lead translates to victory. Prime Minister John Howard has refused to ratify Kyoto because it limits the emissions only of developed nations. For him the top election issue is the economy: "I don't think the world is going to come...
...held this year by Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). The goal of these conversations is to invite a broad variety of players in the environmental arena to come speak at the University, according to Daniel P. Schrag, director of HUCE. When asked about the subtle moral message of his book, Weisman replied, “As a journalist I don’t preach, I simply show the facts, and the facts speak for themselves. Life will go on. My concern frankly is for us.” At least one audience member seemed to share Weisman?...
...year-old élites of China, "a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy," as a Chinese publisher put it [Aug. 6]. Elegant portrayed the Chinese twentysomethings as self-absorbed aristocrats, but when was the last time young adults in the U.S. gave a damn about anything political, moral or nonmaterialistic? In the '70s? America's spoiled youth are just as bad as, if not worse than, spoiled Chinese kids. Brandon Nautchin, Toronto...
...emblematic issue in Australia's politics, as in America's, was communism. We feared Stalin and subversion by the enemy within; the "red menace" was played on, crudely but efficiently, by conservative politicians. Today all that is gone. Australian politics has a new emblematic issue, a different moral center. It has nothing to do with ideology. It is race: the politics of identity, of Aboriginal rights, and the obligation to face a murky and cruel history...
...that forbiddingly bureaucratic polysyllable responsible for so much hot air, really means learning to read other people's image banks, not a forced renunciation of one's own. They realize, quite naturally and instinctively, that the desire to "give people a fair go," which is one of the traditional moral imperatives of Australian life, also applies to immigrants, including those of a different color...