We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important philosophical challenges of our time.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.