COVID-19 Meredith McFadden | 20 May 2020 COVID-19 to Climate Change: Who Can Act? The concerted effort required to overcome our current predicament is a proving ground for the battle that still awaits us.
Animals Rachel Robison-Greene | 15 May 2020 Stories of Vulnerability: COVID-19 in Slaughterhouses The current crisis has provided a new context to evaluate our relationship to meat and the machinery that produces it. Can we justify the cost of this "vital" labor?
Time for a Paradigm Shift: COVID-19 and Human Consumption The current crisis should persuade us to reconsider our relationship to the natural world. 29 Apr 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Water Scarcity and Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic" Our habitual practices are causing harm and manipulations to market forces can't produce lasting change. What are we to do? 12 Mar 2020 | A.G. Holdier
The Coastal GasLink Pipeline The Coastal GasLink pipeline standoff highlights a number of concerns of legitimacy and puts pressure on different entities' claim to the right to rule. 3 Mar 2020 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Fighting Fire with Smoke: On CPAC's "Anti-Greta" The Washington Post's recent profile of the "Anti-Greta" raises concerns over journalistic ethics. Does giving space to fringe beliefs always run afoul of the duty to avoid false equivalence? 27 Feb 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
Is It Ethical to Extinguish a Species? What is the proper metric to use in deciding another species' fate? What do we need to know in order to justify extinction? 14 Feb 2020 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Grassroots Environmentalism and California’s CAPP Are local initiatives really a feasible substitute for large-scale regulation when it comes to environmental issues like air pollution? 12 Feb 2020 | A.G. Holdier
Why Isn't Everybody Panicking? Scientific Reticence and the Duty to Scare People How can we balance accuracy against alarmism? How can we avoid defeatism and instead inspire action? What does scientific accuracy demand? 30 Jan 2020 | Desmonda Lawrence
Collective Action and Climate Change: Consumption, Defection, and Motivation Should climate change policies aim at justice or fairness? 9 Jan 2020 | Meredith McFadden
Australia's Apocalyptic Summer The situation in Australia is further complicated by the climate change politics at play. It may not have caused the fires, but climate change isn't only in the minds of "raving inner-city lefties" either. 3 Jan 2020 | Desmonda Lawrence
When Moral Arguments Don't Work Is addiction a useful framework for explaining inaction regarding global heating? Or does it simply excuse bad behavior? 31 Dec 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
Should You Eat Baby Yoda? What properties or characteristics might explain our different intuitions about the edibility of nonhuman creatures? 26 Dec 2019 | A.G. Holdier
Climate Justice: Whose Responsibility? Is our duty to combat global heating grounded in responsibility, justice, or humanitarian concern? Why might this distinction matter? 21 Nov 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
Is This an Emergency?: Why Language Matters The language we use to describe the state of our world has significant influence in motivating human action. 14 Nov 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
Is the “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act” a Step in the Right Direction? Recent federal legislation aimed at safeguarding animal welfare and criminalizing torture and cruelty promises much and delivers little. 8 Nov 2019 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Power and Perception: The Ethics of Urban Exploration Urban exploration can change our connection to the world and the way we see ourselves in it. But it can also reinforce a sense of entitlement and separation. 1 Nov 2019 | Beatrice Harvey
EEE and the Eradication of Mosquitoes Is the annihilation a justified response? What about genetic modification? Who gets to decide? 21 Oct 2019 | Haley Thompson
Climate Emergency and the Case for Civil Disobedience Continued political inactivity to confront the growing climate crisis may mean that participation in demonstration is not simply permissible, but may be morally obligatory. 8 Oct 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
The Ethics of Climate Change Protest: Should Protest Be Funny? The memeification of climate change protest shows us once again how comedy and tragedy are related. But there may be consequences to fighting the ongoing climate emergency with humor in a transitory medium. 8 Oct 2019 | Beatrice Harvey
Are Green Burials an Ethical Good? Environmental ethics butts up against religious convictions: should climate change realities alter our beliefs about how to honor the dead? 2 Oct 2019 | Matthew S.W. Silk
The Djap Wurrung Trees, Hermeneutical Injustice, and Australia's First Nations People The conflict regarding the Djap Wurrung trees in western Victoria presents an opportunity to redress longstanding injustice. 24 Sep 2019 | Desmonda Lawrence
