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An Evergreen Metaphor: Strachan Donnelley, Dan Callahan, and Environmental Ethics
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe devastation of Hurricane Ida and the global threats of climate change are not on the fringe of bioethics. They call to mind the language of priority-setting typical of bioethics discourse. Who lives and who dies? What can be accomplished with prevention and more levees? And if more are built, how do we set priorities with limited resources?Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell–or: Colossal Fantasies
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayI have always wanted to see a woolly mammoth. From the time I first read about them up until, well, a few moments ago, I’ve fantasized about going back in time to see a herd shoving its way through an Ice Age snowstorm. Alas, it cannot be, even if George Church and a new company, Colossus, bend heaven and earth to make it happen.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Living Good and Healthy Lives on a Changing Earth: What Should Bioethics Do?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayWhat does it mean to live well on a warming planet? And as the climate changes, how might health care, education, and other sectors support, or obstruct, our ability to respond? The answers to these profound, and profoundly bioethical, questions will critically influence human well-being in this century and beyond. A group of scientists, educators, and bioethicists convened at The Hastings Center recently to consider these questions and begin an interdisciplinary conversation on how bioethics might address the challenges posed by climate change.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
We Should Be Concerned About Athletes Having to ‘Dope Down’
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Caster Semenya and the Challenges of Sports Brackets
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIf virtuous perfection of natural talents is what sports is all about, sports needs more people like Caster Semenya, the South African runner. But she is now ineligible for competing in middle distance events unless she takes medication to suppress her naturally high testosterone levels. Is this fair?Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal
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Might Chimpanzees Have Legal Rights?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn May 8, the New York Court of Appeals denied an appeal to have two captive chimpanzees, Kiko and Tommy, recognized as legal persons with the right to bodily liberty and released to a chimpanzee sanctuary. The Court of Appeals allows only about 5 percent of appeals, so the legal outcome was not surp...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Chimpanzees: Persons or Things?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLast month, a group of 17 North American philosophers (myself included) filed an amicus curiae brief with the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees. The brief, informally known as “Chimpanzee Personhood: The Philosophers’ Brief,” supports a legal a...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Fix the Planet, or Change the Creatures In It?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayPossibly as many as half of the coral reefs that existed 100 years ago have been destroyed, sometimes by removing them, covering them up, or blowing them up, but mostly just because of climate change, which is gradually heating the water and making it more acidic. The solution everyone who cares abou...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion
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Humans and Nature
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