Rieder, Travis N. – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 21 May 2025 08:47:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Rieder, Travis N. – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Catastrophe ethics https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/catastrophe-ethics/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=45111 From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.

]]> Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid plastic or air travel, or to drive electric, make any real difference?

We urgently need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental tools most of us rely on to ‘do the right thing’ just don’t work when it comes to reasoning about large collective problems. From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.

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