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“Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.”
― Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
― Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“... those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented.”
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
“Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.”
― Practical Ethics
― Practical Ethics
“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world’s poor, the problems of Australia’s Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato’s time.”
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
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