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Animals / Climate / Distribution / Environment / General / Social justice

19 August, 2024

From the Vault: Nature, Animals, and the Environment

While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2023-24 season.

Student climate strike in Melbourne, Australia (2021). John Englart from Fawkner, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts on issues relating to nature, the environment, and animals:

In an important intervention, guest author Griffin Kiegiel argues that we need to pay to an underappreciated aspect of conscious AI: it’s massive environmental impacts.
Matthew Perry discussed the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, and highlighted ways in which we can build on it.
A recent agreement between Australia and Tuvalu, aimed at helping Tuvalu deal with the ravages of climate change, has been cautiously hailed as progress. However, Virginia De Biasio argues that it actually perpetuates climate injustice.
Angie Pepper discussed the Grand National and the extent to which we share responsibility for harm befalling horses.
In another incisive post, Peter Dietsch argues that modern debates about climate justice and debates about social justice should be integrated.
Finally, 5 years after Extinction Rebellion was formally launched outside the UK Parliament, Costanza Porro asked, ‘What is next for the environmental movement in the UK?‘

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Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2024-25 season!

Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.

Animals / Economics / General / Social justice / Work

12 August, 2024

by admin

From the Vault: The Journal of Applied Philosophy

While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2023-24 season.

The cover page of a recent edition of Journal of Applied Philosophy. (c) Wiley 2024

Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts published in collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy:

In the first Journal of Applied Philosophy post, Suzy Killmister discusses what, if anything, members of oppressed groups can do to counter oppression.
We also featured a post by David Benatar, on what he refers to as the “paradox of desert”.
Caleb Althorpe and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns ask, Would a post-work future really be a good thing?
In a thought-provoking piece, Nico Müller and Friderike Spang, argued that violent animal activism may be impermissible even when we grant that animals have rights.
In another very popular post, Rubén Marciel and Pablo Magaña discussed how the animal industry undermines consumers’ autonomy in a number of different ways.
Finally, Katharina Berndt Rasmussen discussed her article (co-authored with Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis) exploring the roles that implicit bias and social norms play in discriminating hiring practices.

Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2024-25 season!

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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.

Animals / Duties / General / Moral values / War

2 May, 2024

by Journal of Applied Philosophy

If animals have rights, why not bomb slaughterhouses?

In this post, Nico Müller (U. of Basel) and Friderike Spang (U. of Lausanne) discuss their new article published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, in which they look at the relation between animal rights and violent forms of activism. They argue that violent activism frequently backfires, doing more harm than good to the animal rights cause.

In 2022 alone, some ten billion land animals were killed in US slaughterhouses. That’s ten billion violations of moral rights, at least if many philosophers since the 1960s (and some before that) have got it right. If the victims were human, most of us would condone the use of violence, even lethal violence, in their defense. So regardless of whether you agree with the values of the animal rights movement, you may wonder: Why isn’t this movement much more violent? It seems like it should be, on its own terms.

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Animals / General / Rights

29 April, 2024

by Matthew Wray Perry

Why is the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness morally important?

Last week was a milestone for animals. Prominent scientists, philosophers and policy experts came together to sign the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, a statement detailing a consensus that mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, cephalopods (like octopuses), crustaceans (like crabs) and even insects most probably have subjective experiences, known as “sentience”.

This may not come as a surprise to many of us, but academic research is often characterised by disagreement. A public announcement of consensus is not only profoundly unusual, it also brings into view just how substantial the evidence is that many more animals have conscious experiences than we often assume.

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