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I’m slow with new posts as I’m trying to make a book based on the material from this blog. So be patient!
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Recent Posts
- Everything under control 20/12/2021
- The Fable of the Fable of the Bees: Private Hubris, Public Scarcity 13/12/2021
- What kind of science is afforded by technology? 13/04/2021
- The language of the voiceless: Some questions about ecological ethics 17/01/2021
- Social change and moral values: A modest research program to change the world 12/01/2021
- The Myths of the Nation-State 08/01/2021
- Responsibility in a complex world 17/12/2020
- Green shame 06/10/2020
- The stories we tell ourselves 30/09/2020
- The problem of polarization: the sense and nonsense of debates about new technology 31/05/2020
- Climate Change, Covid-19, and the Apocalypse 05/05/2020
- The idealistic fallacy of the autonomous self 22/04/2020
- The corona crisis as the big degrowth experiment 13/04/2020
- The moral charge of made institutions 07/04/2020
- The value of values: What ethics can learn from the corona crisis 05/04/2020
- Some chattering about the public debate on social media 11/03/2020
- Issues in the relationship between science and politics 23/02/2020
- Making things and discourses. An answer to the question: What is philosophy? 16/02/2020
- The eternal Golden Age: The discursive corruption of the Dutch self-image 07/02/2020
- A new way for the political left: Towards a wiser and richer society? 27/01/2020
- The amorality of organizations 05/01/2020
- Causes versus understandings: Why self-driving cars may not be a good idea 11/12/2019
- The Forgotten Virtue of Forgiveness in the Public Domain 25/11/2019
- Thinking with words and thinking with things 06/11/2019
- The romantic ideal of our illusory evolution 25/10/2019
- Free will exists because we want it to 11/09/2019
- The state of technology and society in a world without borders 20/08/2019
- About Privacy, Poo and Cyberspace 09/07/2019
- Optimization machines: The peculiar reversal of rationality 20/04/2019
- A hero like Hirschman and the turns in transition thinking 08/04/2019
- Can you call a politician fascist? Narratives, accountabilities and the ‘benefit of the doubt’ 28/03/2019
- Is moral change possible? 21/03/2019
- How do we settle the climate problem? 14/03/2019
- Moral senses of the individual and the social self 24/02/2019
- Misunderstandings about the freedom of speech: About the rules for the public debate 16/02/2019
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Tag Archives: Sustainability
Green shame
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] There’s an increasing amount of talk about ‘green shame’: the negative emotion you experience when you make choices that are not environmentally friendly. Wouldn’t it be sensible to stimulate this emotion … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Ecoconsumerism, Emotions, Green shame, Moral tribalism, Norms, Shame, Societal debate, Sustainability
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The corona crisis as the big degrowth experiment
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Until recently, the deliberate shrinking of the economy seemed only an unrealistic hypothesis. However, the corona crisis offers opportunities to take concrete steps towards such a ‘degrowth’ economy. However, the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged Basic income, Corona, Coronacrisis, Debt, Decroissance, Degrowth, Donut economy, Economics, Envy, Innovation, Institutions, Postcorona economy, Social experiment, Steady state economy, Sufficiency, Suffizienz, Sustainability, Sustainable innovation, Tim Jackson
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