Ethics

On April 24, 2014, Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, asks: In a world with finite ecological limits, how do we make what we need, get it to the people who need it, and nurture what we already have?

In part two of Prosperity for a Finite Planet, Tim Jackson, looks forward to an alternative economics that would better serve future prosperity.

In the final part of Prosperity for a Finite Planet, New York Times journalist Eduardo Porter engages Tim Jackson in discussion. In his questioning, Porter presses Jackson to articulate the differences between essential and non-essential economic growth, including the differences between achieving prosperity in low-income and high-income nations.

Melissa Lane discusses the links between citizenship and sustainability.

Anthony Leiserowitz is joined in conversation by Kate Orff, Paul Lewis, and Dale Jamieson to discuss underlying values that are reflected in our various views of climate change, and the extent to which those views are based on cultural predispositions rather than scientific data.

Anthony Leiserowitz discusses American perceptions about the threat of climate change.