Anthropocentric Environmentalism
Freddie deBoer, TAS combox Hall of Famer and proprietor of L’Hôte, has written an insightful and extremely sensical essay on the kind of Green that recognizes our truly human priorities, instead of worshipping the misleading and romantic abstraction of Nature. This topic is very near and dear to my heart, and reading Freddie on it will automatically make you a better person.
Good essay — though it’ll take a lot more than that to make me a better person.
Also, this — The world has no preferred temperature. We do. — is a great line.
You do need a name for this, though. Human-centric environmentalism doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
I propose vertical integration, which riffs off Nozick’s idea of rational integration.
— JA · Sep 9, 02:51 PM · #
Vertical Integration — the contract we would reach with other, covalent species should we import their perspectives to the original position, behind the veil and under conditions of reflective equilibrium. I like it!
— JA · Sep 9, 02:58 PM · #
Thanks for the plug!
— Freddie · Sep 9, 04:04 PM · #