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Making the world whole again
“Small steps will no longer do. The biggest steps need to be taken by those with the biggest boots.” – Sauli Niinisto, President of…
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Ethical dilemmas
Dilemma: I like to think that I care for the environment and for the future of the planet, and I’m concerned by the potential…
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Wild thinking
“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” – George Perkins Marsh Our…
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6 thinkers
What does climate change mean to humans? Here are six thinkers’ views on the climate. The Physicist Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018 “One can…
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Changing the Earth’s atmosphere
Interviewee: Charley Lineweaver Interviewer: Tim Dean Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How does Earth’s atmosphere compare…
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When degree is shaked
When the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth,…
Literature & Writing
Stories of change
Image: Blind monks examining an elephant, Hanabusa Itchō, 1652–1724. Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. Once more, we received…
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Heraclitus on talk radio
Image: Democritus and Heraclitus, Richard Gaywood, ca. 1630-1680, The Met Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. Once more,…
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A change in temperature
Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Arrhenius was the first to use basic principles…
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Around the web
A climate of mind Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade as public debate over…
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Our library
Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world. Field Notes from a…
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X-risks and Existentialism
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov In Fear and Trembling,…