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S&D argue that market economies will fix all negative side-effects of technological development spontaneously because of the commercial value of the effluents.
Pessimists see the goal of human activity as minimizing human impacts; optimists understand the goal of human activity to be maximizing human flourishing.
Plomin made it clear he wasn’t claiming genetic differences accounted for all the differences in how children turn out.
Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.
Even the most dangerous things hold enormous potential to save lives.
People value expertise in closed systems, but are distrustful of expertise in open systems.
Taken at face value, this estimate is shocking and may on its own be responsible for switching tens of thousands of people away from eating meat.
The conservation of nature is an ethical imperative. Every sentient being’s welfare – human or non-human – should be taken into account in our moral considerations.
GMOs interact with wider global systems that they could potentially undermine, with terrible consequence.