Animals and the Environment

Drawing on a wide range of issues and disciplines, this diverse collection of engaging essays highlights common ground between earth and animal activists. The first book on the subject, Animals and the Environment explores shared philosophical groundings, exposes common cause, and raises a host of pressing and intriguing questions and concerns that lie at the intersection of environmental and animal ethics. This collection features teachers, grassroots activists, and international lobbyists whose expertise lies in mathematics, sociology, physics, ecology, psychology, Asian philosophy, ecofeminism, ethics, and biology. They hale from Malaysia, Greece, Canada, The United States, Norway, and Uganda, including the voices of a Chicana Indigenae, a Native American, and an Indian-American. Authors explore diverse and intriguing real-life concerns such as the Southeast Asian palm industry, trapping and wildlife management, ethics and zoos, bears and habitat loss, nature films and ecofeminism, elephants and rural human communities.  On topics such as habitat destruction, animal agriculture, and politics, Animals and the Environment explores overlapping interests through contemporary examples: Ways of valuing grizzly bears in British Columbia, the mathematics of diet and environmental footprint in Greece, threats stemming from palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia, and the struggle for land between elephants and villagers in rural India.   And through it all, narratives in Animals and the Environment demonstrate the common sense, viability—and urgent importance—of establishing a united front on behalf of the environment and animals against the powers of big government and big industry.