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Moral issues of climate change stressed at Commission on Sustainable Development.

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UNITED NATIONS -- As the scientific consensus on global warming grows, its time to look more closely at how to share the economic, social, and humanitarian burdens that climate change will likely bring.

That was the main message of a panel discussion on "The Ethical Dimension of Climate Change," organized by the Baha'i International Community and held on 30 April 2007 during this year's meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

"If sea levels rise at the rates they are predicting, we may see hundreds of millions of refugees," said Arthur Lyon Dahl, president of the International Environment Forum, a Baha'i-inspired organization.

"Where will they go? Who will take them in? What does it mean about immigration regulations?" asked Dr. Dahl, noting that these were only some of the moral and ethical questions that are being posed by the looming effects of climate change.

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