Unquiet quitting
Why quitting is not always a virtuous and praiseworthy choice even when it is the right choice, in the latest micro philosophy newsletter.
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Tag: Politics & society
The scandal of food waste
Every informed observer agrees that food waste and loss must be reduced if we are to feed all humans. What’s stopping us?
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Why are we still eating so much meat?
One of the main reasons for the failure of the “less meat” message is that it has become distorted and is heard as the inverse of what it really is.
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Love and Philosophy
I had the pleasure of being Andrea Hiott’s guest on her Love and Philosophy podcast talking about Global philosophy.
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Inside the mind of a Nimby
Nimbyism is too often reduced to its negative sides: metathesiophobia (fear of change) and xenophobia (fear of strangers). But these fears are arguably the flipsides of what the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton called “oikophilia”: the love of home.
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