World on Fire
Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet
Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous. Species are disappearing hundreds or thousands of times faster than normal. COVID-19 has wreaked social and economic havoc but is merely the latest off a blossoming production line of emerging infectious diseases, many of which have the potential to be far worse.Rowlands establishes that all three problems are consequences of choices we have made about energy, which can be divided into two major forms: fuel and food. Focusing on food…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-754191-3
- EAN: 9780197541913
- Produktnummer: 36490174
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'429 KB
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Mark Rowlands (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of twenty-one books, translated into roughly the same number of languages, and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. His work in the philosophy of mind comprises several books, including The Body in Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Nature of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press 1999), Externalism (Acumen 2003), Body Language (MIT Press 2006), The New Science of the Mind (MIT Press 2010), Memory and the Self (Oxford University Press 2016), and Can Animals be Persons? (Oxford University Press 2019). His work in ethics and moral psychology includes Animal Rights (Macmillan 1998), The Environmental Crisis (Macmillan 2000), Animals Like Us (Verso 2002), Can Animals be Moral? (Oxford University Press 2012), Animal Rights: All That Matters (Hodder 2013), and A Good Life (Granta 2015). His memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf (Granta 2008), became an international bestseller.
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