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Profiles of the people whose ideas are helping to shape the future

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MELANIE CHALLENGER

Writer & Researcher

Melanie Challenger is one of the most interesting writers currently working in the rich seam that connects natural history, environment, and ethics.

As well as her many articles and two books, she hosts the podcast Enter the Psychosphere on intelligence in nature, with guests that have included Peter Godfrey-Smith and Anil Seth – both previous Zeitgeisters.

She is the deputy chair of the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She also chairs the steering group for Animals in the Room, an international project to devise a new political mechanism to represent non-human animals.

She is a member of the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers.

The Carousel of Scapegoats

People are social animals and – in the absence of an absolute improvement in your life – there is a destructive but all too human solution: make sure others are relatively more miserable than you are.
Peter Jukes, Hardeep Matharu

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spolier alert… this is the solutions
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