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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty
Take proportionate preventive action when credible risks of grave or irreversible climate harm remain scientifically uncertain.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 4/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 5/41
- Represented systems
- 9/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/9
7.7%
12.2%
9.7%
11.1%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Take proportionate preventive action when credible risks of grave or irreversible climate harm remain scientifically uncertain.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Overall %: source 9.6 · recomputed 9.6774
Evidence, mapping by mapping
9 selected mappings
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Brahma Kumaris values, peace, education, responsibility, and environmental materials
Open original source ↗ www.brahmakumaris.org
Official framework-level anchor · South Asian spiritual movement
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, doctrinal or institutional authority, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9777. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Earth Charter principles of respect, ecological integrity, justice, democracy, nonviolence, and peace
Open original source ↗ earthcharter.org
Official framework-level anchor · Global ecological and social ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9778. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Eckankar Spiritual Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official freedom, responsibility, love, experience, and service teachings
Open original source ↗ www.eckankar.org
Official framework-level anchor · Modern spiritual religion
Verify exact wording, authority, context, translation, and scope.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9779. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Humanists International - Modern Humanism · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Amsterdam Declaration 2022 / Declaration of Modern Humanism
Open original source ↗ humanists.international
Official framework-level anchor · Modern nonreligious ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9780. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
IEEE Code of Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
IEEE Code of Ethics and professional conduct principles
Open original source ↗ ewh.ieee.org
Official framework-level anchor · Professional engineering and technology ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9781. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Tibetan Buddhist Universal Responsibility · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Dalai Lama teachings on compassion, nonviolence, environment, and universal responsibility
Open original source ↗ www.dalailama.com
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9782. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
UNESCO Climate Change Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Article 4: precautionary approach
Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org
Specific primary/official anchor · International environmental ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9783. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
UNESCO Future Generations Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations Towards Future Generations
Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org
Official framework-level anchor · International intergenerational ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9784. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Unity Worldwide Spiritual Christianity · Official framework-level anchor
Use precaution under serious environmental uncertainty · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Unity Five Principles and teachings on lived truth, spiritual worth, prayer, meditation, and equality
Open original source ↗ www.unity.org
Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / New Thought Christian
Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, institutional authority, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9785. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Distribute climate burdens and benefits justly
Allocate mitigation, adaptation, costs, and opportunities with regard for responsibility, capacity, vulnerability, and equality.
Prevent foreseeable climate harm
Reduce activities that create serious, avoidable climate-related injury to people, communities, species, and ecosystems.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 400 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 342 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 261 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 36 |
| Religions Sharing | 4 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 7.7 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 5 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 12.2 |
| All Systems Sharing | 9 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 9.6 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 11.1 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 63.1 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -4.5 |
Specialized or emerging teaching