Cars are terrible. They are loud, dangerous, expensive, take up far too much space, are socially inequitable, and damage our health and environment. Yes, even the electric ones. Car dependency is an urban planning choice. Ultimately, individuals will make environmentally harmful transportation choices so long as the infrastructure around them supports harmful transportation as the most convenient.

Climate change exists and is being accelerated by human activities. To deny this is to create and enable a system where politics creates reality rather than a system where politics is guided by reality. A lack of care towards the biosphere upon which all socio-economic systems inherently rely is already shaping policy.

The automobile has long symbolised freedom and individuality. Cars are advertised as the rejection of reliance on others, allowing an individual to go where they want to, when they want to. Society must combat this by showing the realities that car-centric design reinforces: inequality, discrimination, higher taxes and environmental catastrophes. We must turn away from the automobile and embrace the freedom gained in doing so.

The belief in animal liberation is the lowest common denominator that all vegans share. Yet rather than coming together to advance the political objective of animal liberation, vegans spend far too much time arguing about philosophical nuances which are irrelevant to the cause. Vegans must argue for veganism itself, rather than for veganism backed by a particular normative or meta-ethical theory.

Your genetics and your socio-economic background are nothing more than chance. You might be a privileged person or an oppressed person. Your task is to distribute resources in a way so that you would be happy to born as anyone in the world. There is possibility that we are born as a different species and it is therefore our obligation to defend their rights.

Speciesism is a word which has only recently entered mainstream ethical discussions. Speciesism is the philosophical belief that humans are inherently superior to non-human animals. The eradication of philosophical speciesism is a natural extension from the eradication of other social ills such as racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Both the theoretical and practical eradication of speciesism can be found in veganism.

The Philippines presidential elections are currently underway with Ferdinand ‘Bong Bong’ Marcos Jr. all but certain to win the nation’s 17th presidential election. This should not come as a surprise for three main reason. Firstly because Marcos Jr.’s election follows 6 years of strongman Rodrigo Duterte’s rule, secondly, that the People Power Revolution failed to create a well functioning state and finally because the Filipino media landscape has helped to create neurosis on a societal level by distorting the concept of truth.