When it comes to global problems like climate change, it can be easy to feel as though your own individual efforts to stop it are too small to make a difference. But then when you consider the big players whose efforts could make a difference—the corporations, the political parties—making them do the right thing just seems too daunting and complicated a task. What to do when individual efforts seem too small to matter, but structural change seems too big to effect? This week, the authors of a new book talk about taking a middle path.
Guests: Michael Brownstein, Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Alex Madva, Professor of Philosophy at Cal Poly Pomona
Producer: David Rutledge
Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Daniel Kelly (MIT Press, September 2025)
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