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Entrelationalism: Carbon, Code, Capital, and Culture – An Ethic for an Interdependent Age - The Deeper Thin king Podcast
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Entrelationalism: Carbon, Code, Capital, and Culture – An Ethic for an Interdependent Age
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to climate ethics, AI governance, global justice, and the tangled threads of our shared future.
#Entrelationalism #ClimateEthics #AIGovernance #GlobalJustice #PoliticalPhilosophy
What ethic fits a world where carbon emissions in one country flood homes in another, where lines of code written in California disrupt elections in Kenya, and where capital flows faster than regulation can catch? In this episode, we introduce Entrelationalism—an ethic built for interdependence. It traces how climate change, AI, and global markets demand a moral map that matches the reach of our power.
We explore three clusters and seven principles: inclusive legitimacy, justice across time and space, and systemic stewardship. Drawing on thinkers like John Rawls, Hans Jonas, and Jürgen Habermas, we ask how law, design, and moral imagination can create conditions for autonomy and fairness in a tangled world.
This is not abstract idealism. It is an exploration of harm ledgers, citizen assemblies, algorithm audits, and other institutional designs that embed care into carbon, code, capital, and culture.
Reflections
This episode asks how to make ethics travel as far and fast as our technologies and emissions. Key reflections include:
- Freedom today depends on responsibilities across borders and generations.
- Institutions need legitimacy that includes those affected, even if they have no vote.
- Justice must preserve options for future people, not just repair past harms.
- AI and digital systems need audits and oversight that match their power.
- Our attention is a commons; it can be polluted or protected.
- Sovereignty has moral limits when harm crosses borders.
- Power yields only when pressed—ethics needs activism and enforcement.
Why Listen?
- Understand Entrelationalism and why it matters for climate, tech, and justice
- Explore how Hans Jonas and John Rawls help reimagine duties to the future
- Learn why attention integrity and harm ledgers may be as important as carbon accounting
- Engage with ideas from Habermas on legitimacy in an interconnected world
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Bibliography
- Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Raw