Saving animals, saving ourselves : why animals matter for pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes

Saving animals, saving ourselves Why animals matter for pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes

Jeff Sebo

Book - 2022

"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 s...upport 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"--

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Subjects
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Environmentalism.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Jeff Sebo (author)
Physical Description
xvii, 249 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780190861018
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Saving animals, saving ourselves
  • 1.1. The drowning fawn
  • 1.2. The year of global crisis
  • 1.3. A perfect moral superstorm
  • 1.4. What this book will do
  • 1.5. What this book will not do
  • 2. Animal ethics in a human world
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Species, nations, and generations
  • 2.3. Individual and collective responsibility
  • 2.4. Utilitarianism in theory
  • 2.5. Utilitarianism in practice
  • 2.6. Rights theory in theory
  • 2.7. Rights theory in practice
  • 2.8. A partial convergence
  • 2.9. Exploitation, extermination, and ambivalence
  • 2.10. Conclusion
  • 3. Animals, pandemics, and climate change
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. How we treat animals
  • 3.3. Why our treatment of animals matters for animals
  • 3.4. Why our treatment of animals matters for pandemics
  • 3.5. Why our treatment of animals matters for climate change
  • 3.6. Why pandemics matter for animals
  • 3.7. Why climate change matters for animals
  • 3.8. One Health and the Green New Deal
  • 3.9. Including animals in One Health and the Green New Deal
  • 3.10. Conclusion
  • 4. Limits on inclusion for animals
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The futility objection
  • 4.3. Including animals is not always futile
  • 4.4. Even when it might be futile, it can still be morally required
  • 4.5. Summing up
  • 4.6. The demandingness objection
  • 4.7. Including animals is not always demanding
  • 4.8. Even when it might be demanding, it can still be morally required
  • 4.9. Summing up
  • 4.10. Conclusion
  • 5. Methods of inclusion for animals
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Supporting research and advocacy
  • 5.3. Reducing support for harmful industries
  • 5.4. Increasing support for alternatives
  • 5.5. Including animals in impact assessments
  • 5.6. Including animals in education and employment
  • 5.7. Including animals in social services
  • 5.8. Including animals in infrastructure decisions
  • 5.9. Not blaming or punishing animals for human-caused problems
  • 5.10. Conclusion
  • 6. Animals, conflict, and politics
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. A broad, pluralistic coalition
  • 6.3. Holistic and structural change
  • 6.4. Trade-offs between humans and nonhumans
  • 6.5. Trade-offs between individuals and species
  • 6.6. Trade-offs between animals
  • 6.7. The legal status of animals
  • 6.8. The political status of animals
  • 6.9. Representation for animals
  • 6.10. Conclusion
  • 7. Animals, well-being, and moral status
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Weighing nonhuman lives
  • 7.3. Which animals count?
  • 7.4. How much do they count?
  • 7.5. Uncertainty
  • 7.6. Aggregation
  • 7.7. Other factors
  • 7.8. Moral priorities
  • 7.9. Moral conflicts
  • 7.10. Conclusion
  • 8. Animals, creation ethics, and population ethics
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Evaluating nonhuman lives
  • 8.3. What makes life worth living?
  • 8.4. Which animals have lives worth living?
  • 8.5. The rebugnant conclusion
  • 8.6. The swan identity problem
  • 8.7. Additional asymmetries
  • 8.8. We have no idea what kind of world to build for animals
  • 8.9. But we should start building it anyway
  • 8.10. Conclusion
  • 9. Conclusion: Of minks and men
  • 9.1. The mink pandemic
  • 9.2. To cull or not to cull? That is not the question
  • 9.3. Lessons for the future
  • 9.4. States of emergency
  • 9.5. The expanding circle
  • Notes
  • Index

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