Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8089373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Sebo (0000-0002-8997-3217, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190861018.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4224266923 |
| ISBN | 9780190861018 |
| Open Library | OL35877664M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals is contributing to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats. And these global threats are, in turn, contributing to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. In this book, Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy, by reducing our use of animals as part of our mitigation efforts and increasing our support for animals as part of our adaptation efforts. Applying and extending frameworks such as One Health and the Green New Deal, Sebo calls for reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and considering human and nonhuman needs holistically when we do. Sebo also considers connections with practical issues such as education, employment, social services, and infrastructure, as well as with theoretical issues such as well-being, moral status, political status, and population ethics. In all cases, he shows that these issues are both important and complex, and that we should neither underestimate our responsibilities because of our limitations nor underestimate our limitations because of our responsibilities. Both an urgent call to action and a survey of what ethical and effective action will require, this book will be invaluable for everyone interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how
Business · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions
Geoengineering and Animal Ethics
Climate Change, Animal Agriculture, and Ethics
Amphibious ethics and speculative immersions
Operationalising Moral Status
Education for Disaster Justice
Relational nonhuman personhood
Kantianism for humans, utilitarianism for nonhumans? Yes and no
Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene
Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI
Reconsidering the Ecological Sublime
Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable
Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Toward Ethical Intervention in the Anthropocene
Nonanthropocentric climate ethics
Animal flourishing in a time of ecological crisis
The biodiversity crisis and global justice
Helping Wild Animals Affected by Disasters
Interspecies Justice within a Normative Sustainable Development Framework–Animal-Friendly Energy Systems as a Test Case
Intersubstrate Welfare Comparisons
Genuine Concern for Animals in England's Nineteenth-Century Animal Protection Movement
Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade
| Citations per year | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |