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The never-ending allure of ecotopianism.  What role for universities?

The philosopher Joseph Heath has a critical but thought-provoking review of Kōhei Saitō’s ecotopian book Slow Down.  My takeaway is less pessimistic than Heath’s, but there are important lessons here for all of us: It’s discouraging to go into a classroom and find it full of students who believe, almost verbatim, every bad idea that […]