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Travis Rieder

Travis Rieder

Bioethicist and moral philosopher at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; inaugural Ruth R. Faden Professor in Bioethics Education and author of Catastrophe Ethics.

Aug 27, 2026

Imi Lo
Imi LoHOST
0:43
In fact, why don't you tell us, the audience, a little more about yourself? I mean, I can read out a bio that is extremely impressive, from TED Talk to your work in bioethics, but I do want to hear from you, like, how would you characterize your work and your own passions?
1:03
Sure.
1:04
Um, so I have been working in philosophy and practical ethics for, um, call it 20 years, including graduate school, and I've had a couple of enduring projects.
1:20
And so probably the most enduring project in engaged ethics has to do with, um, climate change, uh, overpopulation, planetary limits, nutrition policy.
1:33
The fact that we live on a closed planet with finite resources and a very large population just makes a lot of really big collective problems really quite hard in this moment.
1:46
And I started working on that in graduate school.
1:48
Some of my earliest publications were on that topic, and that's what I pick up in Catastrophe Ethics, which just came out a couple of years ago.

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Imi Lo
Imi LoHOST
9:44
Right

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