Global Warming

Elise Harmon

History and Culture of Advertising

Professor Andersen

April 26, 2010

Moral Heat Conference

Fordham University’s center for ethics education presented “Moral Heat: Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Regulation and Economics in the 21st Century” on April 20, 2010 at their Lincoln Center campus. I was present for the final part of the presentation, which consisted of the speakers answering questions from the audience and talking about the main points presented throughout the presentation. One of the questions asked by an audience member was how environmental justice will be used in policy making. One of the speakers answered by talking about the electric power industry and how it exhibits a large number of green house gases. Apparently there is a large amount of regulations created by the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, and some of these regulations will be specific for different facilities. Apparently in the past regulating these policies hasn’t been done very well but that the EPA feels that changes will be made in the future in this administration.

A second question was asked about what runs this country since religion is based on faith and not science? Elizabeth Johnson, who previously stated that unfettered capitalism functions as a religion, answered that the economic system is what runs this country. It runs this country because changes how people think of themselves and their expectations. The green movement, however, does not have as much power as capitalism has. Later another question was presented about how they were going to encourage active citizen participation in the society. One of the speakers answered that they will do this through standard mechanisms. These standard mechanisms include models that are developed in community based participation research in which they can learn what it is that persuades citizens to participate more when it comes to environmental and ethical issues.

A final question that was asked was...