Today i'm reading Catriona McKinnon (2014) 'Climate Change: Against Despair'
-Is it fitting to feel despair about making the climate crisis less shitty?
-Nope. It's possible for your/our choices to make things less bad than they would hv been.
-So hope, not despair, is fitting.
Seems right. #philsky
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Sure would be a shame if someone were to come along and ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ... say, by drawing on recent work that argues we can acquire moral knowledge through emotional experiences...
I'm reading a load of classic texts in environmental ethics. It's very striking how often it all comes down to a distinctive view about moral epistemology.
Here's Paul Taylor railing against "intuitions" and recommending "thinking things thru to their foundations":
Come on down to TU Delft Library on Tuesday evening to hear me speak on a panel about emotions and geoengineering. I think there will be a youtube vid afterwards
sg.tudelft.nl/event/the-fi...
At least it's not LinkedIn, eh?