Tag Archives: global warming

Historical morality and obstacles to carbon regulation

By admin | Published: 23 December 2009
I think Americans are so exasperated by healthcare reform as to ignore or be unaffected by the recent happenings in Copenhagen. To recapitulate, world leaders gathered there to try and hammer out some kind of consensus about how to deal with global warming. Barack Obama definitely came out the loser, with no deal and a [...]
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nuclear power and green energy

By anewnadir | Published: 8 May 2009
This morning I was in the bathroom when I received a call from a telemarketer. I’m not someone who’s going to deny someone who wants to sell something; I think that anyone ought to be heard out, and who knows, if what they have to sell is something that I need, I will buy it. [...]
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is Nietzsche’s critique of christianity alive?

By anewnadir | Published: 2 April 2009
Interpreting the financial crisis, along with its wider implications for the Western project (if it can still be so called), is a favorite hobby-horse of the intellectual reviewers of today. So far as I can tell, there are two sects of contemporary philosophy which offer differing accounts of 1) what went wrong and of course [...]
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