Brown, Donald A.2019-09-252019-09-252010-09-172009-08http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175541"The US Congress is striving to pass legislation that would for the first time create binding greenhouse gas emissions reductions 12 years after most of the rest of the developed world bound themselves to reduce emissions in the Kyoto Protocol. Yet, there is not the faintest murmur in the US climate-change debate or in the media’s coverage of the unfolding US legislative fight about duties and responsibilities that the United States has to the rest of the world to reduce the threat of climate change. This is so even though the legislation that has passed the House would require 17% reductions by 2020, a commitment that is only 40% of the Scottish requirement. "(p. 1).engWith permission of the license/copyright holdergreenhouse effectclimate ethicsmediaPolitical ethicsEnvironmental ethicsGovernance and ethicsResources ethicsPreprint