“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Environmentalism
Environmentalism doesn't make sense and doesn't work unless you take the wellbeing of all animals into account. What are we protecting the environment for? Just human beings? This is meaningless. Human beings do pretty well in the city. How successful have environmental efforts been? Largely unsuccessful, because trying to protect some environment out there that in the long future will eventually help our children is too abstract. But if remember that this out-there environment is right now the home to billions of animals who want to live and fight to live, and live with grace and beauty, then you realise how important environmentalism is right now. If we took the lives of animals seriously we would never be in the situation we are in now at all.
Friday, November 15, 2013
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