Environment

Are the duties we have to the natural world and its inhabitants best fulfilled through programs of modification or restoration?

Might humans be responsible for protecting wildlife from the torment of parasites and disease?

Human-guided breeding is responsible for life-threatening deformity.

The jury is still out on the ethics surrounding this modern miracle.

Is it time we mount an intervention to keep our feline friends away from the night life?

What have we learned? What is our goal? Where do we go from here?

"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future." - Albert Camus

It's not just the engine emissions that makes leaf removal an environmental harm.

What is it that makes longtermism "the world's most dangerous credo"?

In what ways might fashion's contribution to global ills represent unique harms in need of immediate redress?

Are there any moral considerations separating different kinds of meat? Cultural attitudes tell us one thing, but what might consistency demand?

"Fairness" can be defined in a number of different ways, but reaching consensus on the right terminology won't matter if there's nothing left to conserve.

On what grounds might we justifiably distinguish between those with interests and those without them?

How big an impact does the choice to not have a child make on climate change really?

We seem to be accelerating toward hard caps and milestones while the problem is only compounding.

How might we explain the space between going above and beyond or merely doing what's expected?

What moral reasons might best ground nations' duty to provide aid and asylum to those being displaced?

The emphasis we place on different countries' responsibility for climate change may be doing more harm than good.

Is an animal's experience of pain the best (only?) metric by which to justify our treatment of them?

We need to interrogate the realities that demand we sacrifice our moral ideals and live with second-best solutions.