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Lethal or Contagious

May 18, 2020

Lethal or Contagious There was this comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday that got me thinking. It was sort of wrapped in a bit of -more- innuendo about health officials not getting the results they were looking for in COVID19 numbers, as if the whole virus event is some goal-seeked conspiracy. You’ll be familiar with […]

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Climate action shouldn’t mean choosing between personal and political responsibility

January 30, 2020

Climate action shouldn’t mean choosing between personal and political responsibility Can your individual behaviour make a real difference to the environment? And should you be expected to voluntarily change your life in the face of our worsening environmental crises? Some argue this emphasis on personal responsibility is a distraction from the real culprits: companies and governments. We often […]

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The State Expands its Responsibilities In Order to Expand Its Power

February 19, 2019

The State Expands its Responsibilities In Order to Expand Its Power Many moviegoers might recognize the following quotation: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Reality, however, is the exact opposite of what the quote describes. In reality, it is responsibility that precedes power. In a corporation, for instance, when you’re hired you are told your […]

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Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us

August 23, 2018

Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]

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Outsourcing Morality

June 30, 2018

Outsourcing Morality Ron Brown and Bill Clinton All the benefits of virtue without the costs. Remember when you had to do something virtuous to signal your virtue? Some of the virtuous way back when did virtuous acts and didn’t even tell anyone else about them. If you go into older museums and other civic monuments […]

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Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse

August 21, 2015

Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl’s From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man’s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced […]

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More Probable Than Not

May 13, 2015

More Probable Than Not My father was a doctor who spent his entire career in a small hospital built by the Tennessee Coal and Iron company in Fairfield, Alabama. He was an ER doc way before emergency medicine was its own thing, which meant that he saw a wide gamut of cases, from knife fights […]

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