Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.
Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
Chris Pearson talks about the history of urban dogs and the role of dogs in modern urban history.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
The graphic reproduction shows the icebear hunt in Greenland, several sailing ships and boats from that time, the long-tailed monkey mentioned in the title, and even a whale in the background.
Natural scientific paper from 1753 with an illustration of a full-grown crocodile and a hatching baby as well as a lizard, reportedly the crocodile’s main food.
Elephants: their functions and their depiction around 1746.
Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.