From the Vault: Animals, the Environment, and Nature
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2024-25 season.
Here are a few highlights from this year’s writing on a wide range of issues relating to nature, animals and environmental politics:
- Back in September, Zsuzsanna Chappel wrote a great piece reflecting on how our theories of justice and injustice from human-centred social philosophy can apply to zoo animals: “Tired of Being an Orca“
- What’s wrong with Anna’s Hummingbird? Matthew Perry argues that renaming animals named eponymously – often after important colonial figures – is important not just to avoid glorifying the people they’re named after, but also to help us recognize each animals’ importance – independent of human history.
- In our ongoing collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, we featured a post by Elizabeth Cripps on her paper “Why it can be permissible to have kids in the climate emergency“
- Angie Pepper has written several posts about the ethics of having pets. This year, she added to the collection with a fascinating post analyzing the ethical implications of our desire to have pets.
- What are the prospects of using carbon taxes to help tackle the climate emergency? Peter Dietsch discusses why carbon taxes are currently ineffective and struggle to gain broad support – and what needs to change.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2025-26 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.
