This month: climate jokes, unfriendly benches, and why we feel more for puppies than people. Turns out, what makes us laugh might also show us what—and who—we care about.
Let’s dive in.
Using Animal Compassion to Understand Why We Struggle to Care at Scale
Understanding where our compassion falters can help us shift from reactive empathy to intentional moral engagement. True impact often begins far from the spotlight.
How Climate Change Memes Help Us Understand Our Compassion Gap
Climate memes are more than jokes — they’re emotional survival tools. They help us laugh, feel, and take action when the climate crisis feels too big to face.
Hostile architecture reflects slow violence in urban design, eroding empathy and compassion while reinforcing psychic numbing toward marginalized groups; narrative empathy can help reclaim public space.
