Ethics for a Full World: Or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?

The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet - climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full.Humanity has already exceeded several planetary boundaries.The situation is without precedent and its manifestations are numerous.Ethics for a Full World argues that our dominant culture's anthropocentrism - our human-focused thinking - is an underlying cause of the world's problems, threatening life as we know it.The blights that endanger our planet are experienced by many today, particularly those who care about other species, as deeply personal tragedies.So why are we not acting to save the world? Some say that humans won't do anything until we feel the repercussions ourselves - but by then it would be too late.This book takes an uncompromising view on our culture, our democracy and us as human beings, and examines why it is so difficult to save the world from ourselves.I