Humans Are a Cancer: But It’s Not All Bad
If humanity is a cancer, what does that mean for our place within the wider universe? Are humans detrimental to the system we live in?
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Why Criticising China’s Wet Markets Isn’t Racist
Being squeamish about animal welfare is better than being squeamish about criticising China over their wet markets, which many Chinese people oppose too.
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Sustainable Fashion And Future Challenges – An Entrepreneur Speaks
Greg Horowitz is the Founder of Double Espresso Textiles (“Double Espresso”). With a Bachelors Degree in History from Binghamton University and a Masters in International Business from the University of Leeds, Greg leverages his wide range of professional experiences in Politics, Entertainment and E-Commerce to make ethical and sustainable fashion a far more achievable reality. […]
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Clearing up Confusion About the Green New Deal
What do farting cows, men urinating in milk jugs, and airplane bans have in common? They’re all not in Alejandra Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”: Separating Fact from Fiction
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's "Green New Deal" has been criticized by both the left and right. But there’s no need to attack it based on something it is not.
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Has New Zealand’s Green Party Forgotten Democracy – or Just Women’s Rights to It?
Renee Gerlich describes how the New Zealand Green Party has ignored women's voices in the rush to protect a minority of men.
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Green Party Verita Report: Safeguarding Failures in Challenor Case
Yesterday, Verita released a report on their investigation into how David Challenor was allowed to fulfil the role of an election agent for the Green Party whilst facing 22 serious charges including rape and sexual assault of a child. Aimee Challenor, who has been a national spokesperson on LGBTIQA+ issues and a member of the executive […]
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The Myth of the Soy Boy: Veganism and Masculinity
Despite vegan men often being dismissed as ‘soyboys’ in popular culture, there is no inherent contradiction between veganism and masculinity. The popular neologism soy boy, “used to describe males who completely and utterly lack all necessary masculine qualities,” has brought back the trite equation of veganism with sub-masculinity. Real men eat meat, as the cliché […]
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Confronting The World’s Water Crises
The shortage of water around the world increasingly presents a geopolitical and security issue as well as an environmental one. Across the world, record heatwaves, dry seasons and unseasonable warmth are wreaking havoc on water supplies. Many areas of the world find themselves in drought conditions the likes of which they have not seen in […]
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Biases, Individualism vs Collectivism, and the Philosophy of Psychology
Conatus News speaks to Dr. Sven van de Wetering about ecological validity in psychology, in Part 4 of an ongoing series on the philosophy of psychology.
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