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I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

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Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

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Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.

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We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

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Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

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The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

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American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

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Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

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We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

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Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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