Environment

The impulse to know, command, and master remains pervasive as ever.

How do we determine those who deserve more than a mere helping hand?

How entities get categorized is invariably a loaded determination filled with additional ethical baggage.

What responses are justified in attempting to insulate ourselves from the risk of zoonotic diseases?

Should humans intervene to prevent even the "useless pain" of animals in the wild?

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.