Ethics for a Full World Burkey Tormod V.
Ethics for a Full World Burkey Tormod V. The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet--climate change, diminishing biodiversity, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation, and…
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Ethics for a Full World Burkey Tormod V.
The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet--climate change, diminishing biodiversity, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation, and more--are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full. The situation is without precedent and its manifestations are numerous. Humanity has already exceeded several planetary boundaries.
Why are we not acting to save the world? Ethics for a Full World argues that our dominant culture of anthropocentrism--our human-centric thinking--is an underlying cause of the world's problems, threatening life as we know it.Many today, especially those who care about other species, experience the blights that endanger our planet as deeply personal tragedies. Some say that humans won't do anything until we feel the repercussions ourselves, but by then it will be too late.
This book takes an uncompromising view of our