#1069 Todd May: Should We Go Extinct?
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Dr. Todd May, he's professor of philosophy at Warren Wilson College. And we're focusing on his book, Should We Go Extinct, a Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Time. So Todd, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Oh thanks, Ricardo. It's an honor to be here. So should we go extinct? Could you explain a little bit better what is the precise question you try to answer in your book?
Sure. Oh uh uh let me put it this way, Ricardo. It's not the question I'm trying to answer, it's the question I'm trying to address and deal with. Okay. Right. What I wanna do is I wanna raise the question Start a conversation.
Around the question itself. But also around the second question, the one that appears at the end of the book. Which is What Can we do
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