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Speaking of climate change, Steven Pinker’s recent article in the NYT on “The Moral Instinct” was a fascinating overview of the possible evolutionary roots / routes of morality (and it’s a safe bet that his next book will be along similar lines), but this puzzling conclusion was shoehorned into it: And nowhere is moralization more of [...] In a Guardian interview, James Lovelock explains why he thinks that there’s no point in most of the environmental activities that we currently pursue. Or indeed, no point to most of the activities that we pursue. … the current canon of eco ideas… [is] premised on the calculation that individual lifestyle adjustments can still save the [...] |
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