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The Importance of Alternative Moral Perspectives
John May: If you pursue policies, single-mindedly thinking the only thing challenged before us is climate change and we've got to turn ourselves inside out. What happens if that results in people in the rest of the world starving because it can? That's a moral dimension as well. But it's also a practical one, isn't it? Because they won't care about the environment. So there are alternative moral perspectives for young people who are idealistic and care about moral issues but then there's a very hard-nose practical one. No one seems to understand that, like, all of these problems are eternal. They're not solvable. And either we stop it, or