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Mar. 11, 2021

Neither by fire nor ice

Toby Ord whisks us in and out of environmental ethical puzzles with the speed of a Formula One racer — that exhilaration and tension and even fear as we brush up against the berms of his paradoxes and insights.

Richard Wirick

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Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).

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Neither by fire nor ice

Toby Ord whisks us in and out of environmental ethical puzzles with the speed of a Formula One racer -- that exhilaration and tension and even fear as we brush up against the berms of his paradoxes and insights. He was a student of Derek Parfit, probably the world's greatest philosopher of ethics until his death at Cambridge in 2018. Parfit was preoccupied with bioethics; population control; when -- if ever -- the state may be allowed to kill; and the eventual end of...

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