I am motivated by harder currencies: money, time, health, and pleasure. If you can find a way to align your own self-interest with the interests of other people and the interests of the planet as a whole, you get a beautiful outcome. This is the idea of selfish selflessness: with the right incentive structure, there's no need for sermons and shamin

In a few remarkable pages of The Descent of Man, Darwin made the case for group selection, raised the principal objection to it, and then proposed a way around the objection: When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if (other circumstances being equal) the one tribe included a great number of courageous, s

the Citizen approach entirely rejects the notion of ‘altruism,’ which derives from the Latin meaning ‘other.’ Instead, we need to embrace ‘proximity’ and ‘interdependence.’