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Sara was so alarmed by the possibility of a global food shortage that she felt compelled to do something to help. So she quit her job at Morgan Stanley.

Although Guha later came to regard his own version of environmentalism to be similarly chauvinistic, his work triggered major debates in environmental studies, which remain with us today.

Guided by the gospels of “radical longtermism” and “effective altruism” (EA), these newfangled storytellers are devoted to the flourishing of imaginary future people rather than the well-being of the masses right here, right now.

At the same time, communities in developing Asia have also begun to reach back into the values and practices of dialogical transcendence to salvage their worlds.

A game of checkers ends. The weather never does. That’s why you can’t save anything. Saving is the wrong word, one invoked over and over again, for almost every cause. Jesus saves and so do banks: they set things aside from the flux of earthly change. We never did save the whales, though we might have prevented them from becoming extinct. We will h

Goodley’s adoption of the postmodern knowledge and political principles—he understands scientific discourses as oppressive and no more rigorous than other ways of knowing—is clear when he likens science to colonialism, We know that colonial knowledges are constructed as neutral and universal through the mobilisation of associated discourses such as

Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.” Pist

This is a model for how indirect effect can be, how delayed, how invisible; no one is more hopeful than a writer, no one is a bigger gambler.