Posted in Environment on May 8th, 2008
(Speaking of religion and the environment . . . .)
Iain Murray writes, tongue-in-cheek:
Even the American homeless emit twice as much carbon dioxide as the world average, the wastrels.
He cites a new MIT study, reported by EPOnline:
“Regardless of income, there is a certain floor below which the individual carbon footprint of a person in the U.S. [...]
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Posted in Culture, Ethics, Science on Nov 21st, 2007
Stem cell breakthrough hailed as end to ethical dilemma
The dilemma, I suppose, was whether to kill people (embryos) or allow people to continue suffering from diseases that embryonic stem cell-based techniques could cure (assuming there are any).
That’s only a dilemma, of course, for pro-lifers who think embryos are people. To everybody else, the choice was [...]
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