ethics and moral philosophy
Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: Nordhaus economics
The most consequential number Nordhaus shared the 2018 Nobel for work he had been doing since the 1970s: integrating climate science with growth to calculate the optimal cost of decarbonization. His central finding: the most important variable is not the temperature target.... Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: The Story
196 signatures, five treatments In a conference room in Paris in December 2015, delegates from 196 nations signed an agreement to hold warming below two degrees Celsius. By 2024, the global average had breached 1.5 for an entire calendar year.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: Consequentialists
Before the bomb March 1945. The United States firebombed Tokyo and killed approximately 100,000 civilians in a single night. In the five months that followed, sixty-six additional cities burned. Conservative estimates: over 300,000 dead from conventional raids. No hand-wringing.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: Contextualists
After Okinawa June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa ended after eighty-two days. Over 12,000 Americans killed, 38,000 wounded. Japanese military deaths exceeded 77,000.... How should we judge wartime atrocities?: The Story
The room Concrete walls, bad coffee, a long table, August 1945. A map of the Japanese home islands pinned to the wall. On one side: casualty projections for Operation Downfall — 250,000 to over a million Allied dead. Japanese casualties several times that....