Saving animals, saving ourselves [electronic resource] : why animals matter for pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes

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서명/저자사항	Saving animals, saving ourselves [electronic resource]: why animals matter for pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes / Jeff Sebo.
개인저자	Sebo, Jeff, author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2022]
형태사항	1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN	9780190861025 0190861029
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction: Saving animals, saving ourselves -- Animal ethics in a human world -- Animals, pandemics, and climate change -- Limits on inclusion for animals -- Methods of inclusion for animals -- Animals, conflict, and politics -- Animals, well-being, and moral status -- Animals, creation ethics, and population ethics -- Conclusion: Of minks and men.
요약	"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"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Animal welfare --Moral and ethical aspects. Nature --Effect of human beings on. Environmentalism. Animal welfare --Moral and ethical aspects. Environmentalism. Nature --Effect of human beings on.
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