Saved by Stuart Evans and
The Ideology of Human Supremacy
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
Already in Paleolithic times, people had driven plenty of species—woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, mastodons, glyptodons, and North American camels—into oblivion. Later, as the Polynesians settled the islands of the Pacific, they wiped out creatures like the moa and the moa-nalo. (The latter were goose-like ducks that lived in Hawaii.) When the Euro
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
No wonder a civilization steeped in the polarization of Good versus Evil wreaks such havoc on the rest of nature. No wonder so many creatures are dwindling and disappearing, their homes ravaged with toxins, their forests transformed to stumps