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Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes [Hardback]

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(Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy, and Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, New York University)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 216x149x23 mm, weight: 490 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0190861010
  • ISBN-13: 9780190861018
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width x depth: 216x149x23 mm, weight: 490 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
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  • ISBN-13: 9780190861018
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"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 scholars, advocates, policy-makers, and anyone else interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how"--

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 contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity
loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering.

Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy. In particular, we should reduce our use of animals as part of our pandemic and climate change mitigation efforts and increase 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. 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 requires, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is an invaluable resource for scholars, advocates, policy-makers, and anyone interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how.

Recenzijas

The book provokes scholars from across disciplines to think through in further detail the empirical, normative, and other questions that arise from its main propositions, and the general public to openly engage with its contents. * Charlotte E. Blattner, University of Bern, Society & Animals * The pandemic should have caused a global awakening to how our treatment of animals significantly causes human harm. In one way or another, the pandemic is rooted in animal exploitation. But the world remains largely silent on this connection. Ditto climate change. Ditto world hunger. Ditto environmental destruction. Maybe Jeff Sebo's new book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, will end the silence. Sebo clearly shows how many of the most urgent public health issues we face today are directly related to our treatment of animals. This is a book that must be read. Time is running out if we want to save ourselves, we have to save animals, too. * Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH, Author of Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy and Our Shared Destinies * Jeff Sebo has been leading the conversation about the impacts of human behavior on animals and the environment for years. In Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, he shows that when we accept our responsibilities as well as our limitations, we can bring about transformative change for everyone and build a more just and sustainable futureincluding for the most vulnerable among us. This book is a must-read for policy makers looking to chart a new path forward. * U.S. Senator Cory Booker * In Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, Jeff Sebo argues forcefully that we have a responsibility to help everyone affected by human activity, including other animals. By reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and including the health and welfare of nonhuman animals in our advocacy and political agendas, we can create a better future for humans and nonhumans alike. This brilliant, wide-ranging book is essential for academics, advocates, policymakers, and anyone else with an interest in our shared future. * Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & U. N. Messenger of Peace * In Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, Jeff Sebo draws together a wealth of evidence to make an overwhelming case that the way we treat animals today is not only a grave moral wrong, but also a serious threat to our health, our well-being, and possibly our very existence. Every meat-eater and every policy-maker needs to read and ponder the evidence Sebo presents. * Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, and author of Animal Liberation * It makes a real contribution to understanding the problem of saving animals and ourselves. * Angus Taylor, Digitalcommons.calpoly * What I liked most about the book is the cautiousness, honesty and holism of Sebo's approach... It thereby lays valuable groundwork for more concrete and specific future investigations into how animals should be included in our ethical thinking about human-induced crises. * Thomas Pölzler, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice *

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction: Saving animals, saving ourselves
1(14)
1.1 The drowning fawn
1(3)
1.2 The year of global crisis
4(2)
1.3 A perfect moral superstorm
6(3)
1.4 What this book will do
9(3)
1.5 What this book will not do
12(3)
2 Animal ethics in a human world
15(25)
2.1 Introduction
15(1)
2.2 Species, nations, and generations
16(3)
2.3 Individual and collective responsibility
19(3)
2.4 Utilitarianism in theory
22(2)
2.5 Utilitarianism in practice
24(3)
2.6 Rights theory in theory
27(3)
2.7 Rights theory in practice
30(3)
2.8 A partial convergence
33(2)
2.9 Exploitation, extermination, and ambivalence
35(3)
2.10 Conclusion
38(2)
3 Animals, pandemics, and climate change
40(26)
3.1 Introduction
40(1)
3.2 How we treat animals
41(3)
3.3 Why our treatment of animals matters for animals
44(3)
3.4 Why our treatment of animals matters for pandemics
47(3)
3.5 Why our treatment of animals matters for climate change
50(2)
3.6 Why pandemics matter for animals
52(3)
3.7 Why climate change matters for animals
55(3)
3.8 One Health and the Green New Deal
58(2)
3.9 Including animals in One Health and the Green New Deal
60(3)
3.10 Conclusion
63(3)
4 Limits on inclusion for animals
66(25)
4.1 Introduction
66(1)
4.2 The futility objection
67(3)
4.3 Including animals is not always futile
70(3)
4.4 Even when it might be futile, it can still be morally required
73(2)
4.5 Summing up
75(3)
4.6 The demandingness objection
78(3)
4.7 Including animals is not always demanding
81(3)
4.8 Even when it might be demanding, it can still be morally required
84(2)
4.9 Summing up
86(3)
4.10 Conclusion
89(2)
5 Methods of inclusion for animals
91(25)
5.1 Introduction
91(1)
5.2 Supporting research and advocacy
92(3)
5.3 Reducing support for harmful industries
95(3)
5.4 Increasing support for alternatives
98(2)
5.5 Including animals in impact assessments
100(3)
5.6 Including animals in education and employment
103(3)
5.7 Including animals in social services
106(3)
5.8 Including animals in infrastructure decisions
109(2)
5.9 Not blaming or punishing animals for human-caused problems
111(3)
5.10 Conclusion
114(2)
6 Animals, conflict, and politics
116(25)
6.1 Introduction
116(1)
6.2 A broad, pluralistic coalition
117(3)
6.3 Holistic and structural change
120(3)
6.4 Trade-offs between humans and nonhumans
123(2)
6.5 Trade-offs between individuals and species
125(3)
6.6 Trade-offs between animals
128(3)
6.7 The legal status of animals
131(3)
6.8 The political status of animals
134(2)
6.9 Representation for animals
136(3)
6.10 Conclusion
139(2)
7 Animals, well-being, and moral status
141(25)
7.1 Introduction
141(1)
7.2 Weighing nonhuman lives
142(3)
7.3 Which animals count?
145(3)
7.4 How much do they count?
148(2)
7.5 Uncertainty
150(3)
7.6 Aggregation
153(3)
7.7 Other factors
156(3)
7.8 Moral priorities
159(2)
7.9 Moral conflicts
161(3)
7.10 Conclusion
164(2)
8 Animals, creation ethics, and population ethics
166(25)
8.1 Introduction
166(1)
8.2 Evaluating nonhuman lives
167(3)
8.3 What makes life worth living?
170(3)
8.4 Which animals have lives worth living?
173(2)
8.5 The rebugnant conclusion
175(3)
8.6 The swan identity problem
178(3)
8.7 Additional asymmetries
181(3)
8.8 We have no idea what kind of world to build for animals
184(2)
8.9 But we should start building it anyway
186(3)
8.10 Conclusion
189(2)
9 Conclusion: Of minks and men
191(14)
9.1 The mink pandemic
191(3)
9.2 To cull or not to cull? That is not the question
194(2)
9.3 Lessons for the future
196(3)
9.4 States of emergency
199(3)
9.5 The expanding circle
202(3)
Notes 205(34)
Index 239
Jeff Sebo is Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy, and Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program at New York University. He works primarily in bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics. He is co-author of Chimpanzee Rights and Food, Animals, and the Environment. He is also an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, an advisory board member at the Animals in Context series at NYU Press, a board member at Minding Animals International, a mentor at Sentient Media, and a senior research affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project.