(Opinion) Climate change is a paramount concern today, with bodies like the World Economic Forum (WEF) continually exploring solutions. However, some of these proposed solutions raise ethical questions and concerns about the role of human intervention in nature. Recently, S. Matthew Liao, an American philosopher specializing in bioethics and normative ethics linked to the WEF, […]
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