Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-03-07]: The new Paris deal for the climate which was struck in December [1] should be under way now. (What? You have forgotten all about it? Harmonia Philosophica is here to remind you!) Trillions of dollars in investments for the developed world to become more “green”. The world needs a justification to sustain taxes. The world needs a justification to sustain “economic development”. But what we need is not “greener” factories producing iPhones. What we need is not to believe that we actually need the iPhones…
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