Conclusion
According to the Silver Rule, we should not do to others what we would want not done to ourselves. We certainly would not have wanted previous generations to have ruined the climate for us. And yet our generation is in the process of ruining it for all subsequent generations, perhaps even making it impossible for civilization to continue.
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[3] Lester R. Brown, "The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity," Der Spiegel Online, 11 February 2009.
[4] Dana Nuccitelli, "We Haven't Hit the Global Warming Pause Button," Guardian, 23 June 2013.
[5] John Upton, "Oceans Getting Hotter Than Anybody Realized," Climate Central, 5 October 2014; Bryan Walsh, "Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish," 16 May 2013; Joanna M. Foster, "The 2014 Shrimp Season in the Gulf of Maine Has Been Canceled," 4 December 2013; Bill Trotter, "Officials Cancel 2015 Gulf of Maine Shrimp Season, Citing Weak Shrimp Stock," Bangor Daily News, 12 January 2015.
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