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Climate Change Seminar
Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge
Spring Semester 2025
Most Mondays, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
255 Olin Hall | Zoom Link
This university-wide seminar provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
February 10: Empowering Vulnerable Communities Facing the Consequences of Climate (Action)
Michael Charles (Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering)
(video)
Abstract: Climate change poses threats to all life on our planet but the consequences do not impact all communities equally. With the complexity of the technological, political, and economic systems that humankind has built around ourselves, our solutions to address climate change also redistribute risks disproportionately. In this seminar, we will dive into the trade-offs
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A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human
Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell (“K & C” hereafter) have written an ambitious book. They set out not only to explain the evolutionary history of the “moral mind,” but also to draw lessons from this evolutionary history for the possibilities of moral progress among human beings today. The first, explanatory task is the focus of the first three sections: “Moral Apes,” “The Moral Mind,” and “Moral Cultures”; the second task is undertaken in the last section, “Moral Progress.”
I am afraid I found a great deal to criticize in this book, and not much to admire. The adaptationist story K & C tell about our ascent from our proto-moral primate ancestors is, despite their disclaimers (5), largely a “just-so” story, badly unconstrained by evidence. The conclusions they draw about the nature of human morality are poorly informed by contemporary research in cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, and interdisciplinary work on the nature of human language. K & C have an empiricist bias and ignore, or else cursorily dismiss, nativist alternatives that the reader should at least be made aware of. In general, K & C oversimplify many complex and highly controversial issues, asserting or pr