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Damn the Absolute!

May 26, 2021

Debates about reversing climate change can be understood as a tension between two groups: wizards and prophets.

 
According to Charles C. Mann, wizards are tech-optimists, those who believe that technology resolves more problems than it creates, that technology will save us from the climate crisis. It has advanced...


May 12, 2021

Answering questions about what it means for humans to flourish is difficult. Attempting any certainty as to what it means for nonhuman animals to flourish is even more confounding. And yet, these questions have significant overlap.

 

While some cultures have developed relationships that are responsive to the lives and...