https://genius.com/Martin-carthy-palaces-of-gold-lyricsThis song was originally written by Leon Rosselson in response to the Aberfan Disaster of 1966 in which a coalmine’s spoilheap collapsed on to a school in Aberfan, Wales, killing 116 children and 28 adults. The National Coal Board was found to have behaved negligently.
https://www.ft.com/content/94a08a9e-8579-4586-8940-ccd86df28ea7The data, based on exhaustive surveys, showed the regional spread of legacy coal tips and graded them according to the risk they present to the public from landslides, with nearly 300 of 2,456 categorised as being at “high risk”.
From that approach, economic activity should be aimed at maintaining or increasing the regenerative capabilities of our environments, making nature flourish, in order to reach actual material growth. — Benkei
Good insight. I'm with you.From that approach, economic activity should be aimed at maintaining or increasing the regenerative capabilities of our environments, making nature flourish, in order to reach actual material growth. — Benkei
Fossil fuel, as an example.If profit only exists in terms of increasing resources, instead of diminishing them then a lot of economic activity becomes unviable. — Benkei
Is there a sensible way to extend the application of eudaimonia to the environment and future generations? And I mean not in a way that a healthy and nice environment increases my own eudaimonia but that I have a duty to have the environment flourish, like a caretaker? — Benkei
Are you aware of any decent books describing their ethics? — Benkei
Wrong question. Ethics is the examination of principles that govern the moral behavior of an individual. There's no individuality in tribal relations.Are you aware of any decent books describing their ethics? — Benkei
Too bad Europeans killed most of those indigenous people. — Benkei
Ethics is the examination of principles that govern the moral behavior of an individual. — L'éléphant
The difficulty of reading Xenophon lies in its simplicity. — Fooloso4
Too bad Europeans killed most of those indigenous people. — Benkei
The simpler the writing is, the more difficult it is to understand it. — god must be atheist
I feel rather strongly that we need to move away from an expression of profit solely in terms of money. — Benkei
If it doesn't improve the world we're living in, why should we be bothering? — Benkei
What is true in the case of Xenophon is not true in general. His writing is deceptively simple. There is much more there than meets the eye. — Fooloso4
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