This article is awesomely relevant. Thanks for sharing. A few lines that stuck out to me for our purposes, or the purposes of the E.T.:
"'you guys always talk about animals, but we need to think about people.'"
"There are fertile grasslands nearby. But they are mostly reserved for the animals." (emphasis "But")
"He spoke of a 'cascading effect' on the lions, leopards, birds, plants, all interconnected in an ecological web that has been relatively undisturbed for eons."
This is a good example of the sticky issues faced when humans are regarded a separate category of animals or "not animals" at all. How is it possible to make decisions that best suit the interests of all species when it is not a democracy?
This article is awesomely relevant. Thanks for sharing. A few lines that stuck out to me for our purposes, or the purposes of the E.T.:
ReplyDelete"'you guys always talk about animals, but we need to think about people.'"
"There are fertile grasslands nearby. But they are mostly reserved for the animals." (emphasis "But")
"He spoke of a 'cascading effect' on the lions, leopards, birds, plants, all interconnected in an ecological web that has been relatively undisturbed for eons."
This is a good example of the sticky issues faced when humans are regarded a separate category of animals or "not animals" at all. How is it possible to make decisions that best suit the interests of all species when it is not a democracy?