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The Ideology of Human Supremacy
We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations a... See more
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
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The anthropocentrism of humanity’s
predominant relationship to the environment is so extreme that this gratuitous violence against
other animals (both domesticated and free-living) goes largely unnoticed in everyday society.
Meanwhile, environmental justice, the very field established to champion public awareness
and policy in the service of margin... See more
predominant relationship to the environment is so extreme that this gratuitous violence against
other animals (both domesticated and free-living) goes largely unnoticed in everyday society.
Meanwhile, environmental justice, the very field established to champion public awareness
and policy in the service of margin... See more
Corey L Wrenn • Nonhuman Animal Rights
Mary Martin added
we need a worldview that acknowledges that humans, for the foreseeable future, will always be the powerful party, deciding what needs to be done. We need a narrative that brings together two seemingly contradictory facts. The first is that we are part of the animal kingdom: our evolutionary ancestors were nonhumans; we care about other animals; we ... See more
Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
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One of the most honest accounts I’ve encountered of humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals comes from political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel, who describes it as a state of war — not a metaphorical war, but a literal one, in which we are the aggressors. If you were an alien who knew nothing about our species, you might expect a civilization that ... See more
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
Many people knew this before, but the last three years have hammered home the fact that we cannot protect things that we don’t empathize with. If we don’t care about the value of other lives, whether human or animal, then we won’t be motivated to protect those lives.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
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The struggle to ensure the survival of non-human species goes hand in hand with the struggle for dignity and freedom for all humans.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures that could feel pain and distress, and instead came to be treated as machines. Today these animals are often mass-produced in factory-like facilities, their bodies shap
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Humans are part of the animal kingdom, and we have also come to dominate that kingdom. Denying either reality will prevent us from ever taking full responsibility to care for it.
Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
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