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What Powers Us?: A Comparative Religious Ethics of Energy Sources, Power, and Privilege
- Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
- The Society of Christian Ethics
- Volume 36, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016
- pp. 3-25
- 10.1353/sce.2016.0010
- Article
- Additional Information
Environmental ethicists, philosophers, and moral theologians increasingly examine how anthropogenic climate change (linked to the burning of fossil fuels) poses questions of causality, responsibility, and agency in ways that stretch the capabilities of received moral traditions. This essay opens comparative religious ethical analysis on the topic of contemporary energy ethics for privileged populations, especially in the United States.