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

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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