{"id":14945,"date":"2016-09-14T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14945"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:35","slug":"panel-7-philosophical-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=14945","title":{"rendered":"Panel 7:  Philosophical Dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  style='height:65px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14895\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #808080;\">THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING\/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14895\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #808080;\">A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-short hr-center   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808080; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Panel 7: Philosophical Dilemmas<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12640 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Philosophical Dilemmas at #ehi16\u00a0nearly carbon-free conference.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaEoY7BayZ4?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>The Ontological Brakes of Primordial Time<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Benjamin Ross, University of North Texas<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">We are constantly urged to go faster, to work, consume, and experience more. This author posits that this fascination with acceleration may be leading us to a &#8220;Snow Crash-esque cyberpunk dystopia&#8221; by 2050 unless we alter our perspective of time. This presentation stresses the need for a new, primordial view of time that is capable of reevaluating our role, and place in the world (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Ross\">more<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/30FzA-rPr5I?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-11  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>Human Behavioral Evolution and Climate Change: Evolved Dispositions, Climate Action, and Integration with the Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">John Mustol, Fuller Seminary<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">What can science tell us about what kind of creatures we are, why we behave as we do, and how we might change our behavior in regards to the planet? This presentation will suggest some answers to these questions based on human behavioral evolution, that might be integrated with the humanities and other sources to help show a way forward and make 2050 and beyond more livable \u2013 for us and for other creatures (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Mustol\">more<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tZakdgYcp0?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-16  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>Weakening Nationalities: The Anthropocene as an Era of Personal Responsibility<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Larissa Basso, University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Current institutions seem incapable of dealing with the reality of climate change. This presentation imagines a world in which current fragmentation is intensified as a means to address this deficiency. The author proposes to acknowledge the heterogeneity that exists inside of a nation state and to consider it beyond its borders. By implementing different measures considering personal\/group carbon footprint, climate change could be more successfully tackled and a more just climate future could be created (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Basso\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QH-uOTyMnqk?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-21  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>Working with Dirty Hands: A Christian Realist Environmental Ethics<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Dallas J. Gingles, Southern Methodist University<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">This talk draws on the 20th century ethicist, Reinhold Niebuhr\u2019s, \u201cChristian realism\u201d to argue that we are right to feel regret, remorse, and even guilt when we realize that we are always already complicit in the problem of climate change. Through this lens, as we work to ensure that the Earth continues to be habitable in the coming decades, the presenter stresses we must be indefatigable in pursuing goods and solutions of all kinds while being realistic about our limitations (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#SGingles\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:40px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><a id=\"QA\"><\/a>Q &amp; A<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Have questions or comments? Feel free to take part in the Q&amp;A!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"s1\">Before posting, you must first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12500\">register<\/a>.\u00a0Note that questions and comments can be intended for\u00a0individual speakers, the entire panel, or anyone who\u00a0has posted to\u00a0the Q&amp;A. R<\/span><span class=\"s1\">espond directly to a particular question\/comment\u00a0by way of the little &#8220;reply&#8221; below it. The vertical threadlike lines are there\u00a0to\u00a0make it easier to see which part of the discussion (i.e. &#8220;thread&#8221;) you are taking up.\u00a0You can choose to be notified via email (see below) whenever <\/span>a question, answer, or comment is posted to this particular Q&amp;A. 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