utilitarianism
November 28, 2016
Florian
altruism,animal welfare,climate change,compensation,environmental economics,offsetting,utilitarianism
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Offsetting is egoistic – but less egoistic than you, so (kind of) embrace it!
If correctly interpreted, the common objections against environmental (and maybe other types of) offsetting are not valid critiques of offsetting, but instead more generally of our consumerist lifestyle. Rather than bad, offsetting is the very least to do, given that we anyway don’t abstain from spending money on inessential things while millions starve and […]
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