Ethics and Public Affairs

The ubiquitous and still prevalent ambiguities regarding the nature of knowledge and its acquisition have put two thousand five hundred years of philosophizing into question and questioned a philosopher's profession's credibility. 1 Climate change deniers and flat earthers openly flout the impotence of the epistemological project. The crisis demands a long-pending reboot, a fresh approach, a shift in perspective to revive the traditional epistemological project.

Though the prospect of becoming multi-planetary is increasingly becoming popular, we still cannot pinpoint the reasons to become multi-planetary with confidence. Some view this prospect as a rich people's hobby, while others dismiss it as an expensive curiosity. This paper starts with a detailed analysis of reasons for becoming multi-planetary and their potential objections. Specifically, I argue that becoming multi-planetary is vital for ensuring human existence in the face of evergrowing existential risks. Then I transition to a discussion of the nature of responsibility for becoming multi-planetary, arguing that this responsibility is collective, not individual, considering the project's scope and scale. Subsequently, the paper narrows the discussion of responsibility concerning becoming multi-planetary to its past and future-oriented aspects. The responsibility's past orientation corresponds to accountability, and its future orientation concerns our future actions to become multi-planetary. Specifically, I employ the discussion of responsibility's past orientation to conceptualize future directives for becoming multi-planetary, thus concluding the paper.

The thesis of this paper is to highlight the asymmetric population growth in the global north and global south and how it effects on the realization of SDG 6. This paper argues that population growth cancels any progress in achieving the SDG 6 targets and that any meaningful conversation regarding the realization of SDG 6’s target cannot be undertaken without addressing the topic of the population. Therefore, we need to address the topic of population growth and factor it in defining and measuring the SDG 6 targets and indicators.