Speciesism in Biology and Culture
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Speciesism in Biology and Culture

How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

Herausgegeben: Swartz, Brian; Mishler, Brent D.
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This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and lifestyles. Americans consume more energy resources per person than most other nations on Earth and have little concept of how human ecology and population biology interface with global sustainability...