> The dominant approach in.. [#ClimateEthics] is again posited on rational actors, freely pursuing their own interests. A philosopher of this tradition, in responding to the argument that the moral imperative of climate change comes from the need to save the millions of lives in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, might well quote #DavidHume: ‘’Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.’
#AmitavGosh's #GreatDerangement and #Western #YangChu

Sewers in London:
> ... it’s really interested me to try to understand why people decided to do it. After all, it was going to be to their financial detriment, it was a massive project with uncertain long-term outcomes, but people did it. And the reason, I think, after reading extensively.. it was done was just that people felt it was the right thing to do.
https://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/23/we_are_now_in_the_danger
#TimothyFlannery parallels #Cholera and #ClimateChaos #GlobalWarming found thanks to #AmitavGosh #GreatDerangment

アミタヴ・ゴシュさんのノンフィションの和訳があれば助かる： The Nutmeg's Curseもてても大事な本です。 けど、この投稿のリンクは、 #田口陽子 on The #GreatDerangement by #AmitavGosh

https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/rs/bitstream/10086/28651/1/kunitachi0001100110.pdf