Culture war, meet climate.
It’s important to define the philosophical place from which Epstein approaches his evaluation of human-caused climate effects: by seeing human-industrial impacts as not only a net good, but as thejust way of the world. He mentions his support of animal testing for medicine and science, a stance he claims to share with “most people” , because our “primary moral goal” should be seen to “advance human flourishing,” not “prevent animal suffering and death.
If you perceive this line of argument as reductive and generalizing, well, let me tell you it’s exactly that kind of reasoning that underpins the rest of the book. Per Epstein, banning DDT was wrong,would be fine because the only actual loss would be to the fishing industry, and humans were mere patsies who existed mainly to be killed en masse by natural disasters before they learned to “master” nature using fossil fuel–powered industrial machines and tools.
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