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Fox hunting and dog fighting: a comparative socio-juridical overview

Here’s a little presentation I put together for school. Fox hunting and dog fighting: a comparative socio-juridical overview – YouTube

How can governance and community initiatives improve human impacts on wild animal interests and public attitudes towards them?

Governance can only consider a subject’s interests if it recognises them as a legitimate political agent, whereas community initiatives can directly and agilely improve human impacts on wild animal interests, as well as shift societal expectations and norms through diverse local practices.

Mulling over S-risks on a Sunday

Some thoughts on how an effective altruistic organisation might think about prioritising different types of S-risks. Quick primer here. Agential s-risks are in themselves a form of incidental s-risks—not wholly, as agential s-risks involve some practically random/uncontrollable and individual aspects, but this essential subordination is substantial enough that these Russian doll dynamics should inform strategicContinue reading “Mulling over S-risks on a Sunday”

Thoughts on the social impact of post-Cold War development aid in African recipient countries

While neoliberal development support has brought superficial benefits, it has also been re-engineering socio-political relations and individual quality of life prospects in African recipient states based on market dynamics, to the detriment of those who can least afford these changes.

Is global governance an effective political programme to avert ecological breakdown?

Written in 2018 The crisis is the age. It is on this terrain of an exhausted paradigm—both historical & metaphysical—that a battle is underway. (Wakefield, 2014) If political programmes are designed in the long-term interests of the polity and social, civil and economic justice, and management is a coherent, integrous effort to address global challengesContinue reading “Is global governance an effective political programme to avert ecological breakdown?”

What can welfare mean for farmed goats?

Positive welfare can be enhanced by designing exploitation conditions based on preference testing; animal-based welfare indicators; implications of goat/human interaction and communication; pro-social behaviour; emotional contagion; and enrichment.
However, welfare improvements only answer some ethical problems.