Ocean HoptimismA recent Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates exchange on what’s worth persuading over sparked our latest blog post. Some things, like catch quotas or harbor fees, are negotiable. But a living ocean & the dignity of those who depend on it? Not up for debate. 🌊
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Not Everything Is Up for Debate
Toward a Coates-Framed Ocean EthicA recent podcast conversation between journalist Ezra Klein and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates began with the promise of real exchange and then slid off the rails. The tone stayed civil but flint-struck; they kept circling the same ridge without ever landing on the same ledge.What jarred was not simply disagreement but dissonance: Klein, a white liberal host, kept asking a Black man to contemplate how he might reason with those who deny his very humanity; as if the bur