Environment

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.

Life under lockdown prompts us to reflect on our relation to the natural world and the animals with which we cohabitate.

Generating clean energy with turbines seems to be in our interests, but how do we decide where we should we put them?

There is no obvious cure for the climate change skepticism that has hold over a significant chunk of the population.

The economic uncertainty that comes with turning away from fossil fuels, gives those in power pause.

Our inability (and unwillingness) to advocate for those people and entities that can't advocate for themselves spells doom for environmental protections.