{"id":4852,"date":"2020-12-18T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:36:12","slug":"climate-justice-some-challenges-for-buddhist-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2020\/12\/18\/climate-justice-some-challenges-for-buddhist-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISSN 1076-9005
\nVolume 27, 2020<\/h6>\n

Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics<\/h3>\n

Simon P. James
\nDurham University<\/p>\n

It has often been suggested that the Buddhist teachings can help us to meet the moral challenges posed by the climate crisis. This paper, by contrast, addresses some challenges the topic of climate justice presents for Buddhist ethics. Two arguments to the effect that Buddhist ethics is incompatible with calls for climate justice are considered and rejected. It is then argued that for Buddhists such calls must nonetheless take second place to the paramount concern with overcoming suffering.<\/p>\n

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ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 27, 2020 Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics Simon P. James Durham University It has often been suggested that the Buddhist teachings can help us to meet the moral challenges posed by the climate crisis. This paper, by contrast, addresses some challenges the topic of climate justice presents for Buddhist ethics. … Continue reading Climate Justice: Some Challenges for Buddhist Ethics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[333235],"tags":[1301,2545,2588,2821,1317,2732,2592],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-28-2021","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-philosophy","tag-selflessness","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1gg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}