Death
The Dancer
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein Author/illustrator: Corey…
Articles
Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher.
More articles
Environment
The burnt country
When friends asked me why I left my job as a reporter in Beijing to move to Sydney, I would always point upwards. “The sky,”…
Environment
Breaking the world
Accepting the natural world is breakable took us centuries. Accepting we ourselves could break it took even longer. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the…
coronavirus
Virus views
As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, we published submissions about from our readers on NewPhilosopher.com in the hope that it could help us all make…
Environment
The pale orange dot
Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that blankets us from birth…
Environment
13 views on climate change
#1, 2009: Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous…
Environment
Our ultimate fragility
Interviewee / Photographer: Jason deCaires Taylor Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: You’re dealing on such a grand scale here that’s there’s almost no limit…
Environment
Seasons in the sun
“O! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!” Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1,…
Environment
Client Earth
Interviewee: James Thornton Interviewer: Zan Boag ClientEarth is an environmental law charity that you founded 12 years ago, now with offices in London, Brussels,…
Environment
Our place in the world
“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing?” – David…
Environment
Scenario 3
“It’s real ... And the great irony and tragedy of our time, is a lot of the general public thinks scientists are still arguing.”…
Environment
The evidence
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 per cent probability) to be the…