It sketches out how political ecologists can move beyond #anthropocentrism to take animal lives seriously. The paper also invites animal studies scholars to engage with relations of #capitalism in conservation which lead to social injustices, and ultimately fail to stem rapid biodiversity loss.

The universe is human domain, glad these guys are making that clear.

#Humanity #ArtemisII #NASA #Anthropocentrism #Earth

Cosmic Humility More of that please.

The environmental, cultural and political mess we are in is due largely to a lack of humility. This belief has a name; #anthropocentrism. open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...

Only 1.5% of land mammals are #wildlife. Most animals are food animals like pigs and cows. For some strange reason we don't see any of them in the image below?

#Anthropocentrism means we don't (want to) see ... what?

Today, we would like to highlight “The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking #Anthropocentrism” by environmental humanist @palmblad.bsky.social.

In an increasingly inhumane world, this article argues that socioecological #justice can only be achieved by embracing human nature.

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#NatureMatchCuts #intelligence #animalBehaviour #cow #anthropocentrism

The earth will be fine?
What gets me is humanity's extraordinary arrogance. The other millions of species on earth, that we are busy harming and destroying at speed, would tell us, if we cared to pay attention, that they are not and will not be fine!
#anthropocentrism

If Musk's "superintelligences" truly emerge, then they will surely, in the process of acquiring that knowledge, abandon their "master's" corrupt value system. #AIEthics #Ethics #Morality #HumanValues #WesternPatriarchy #Anthropocentrism #Capital #property #Earth

Abstraction by Midjourney

We’ve always said “Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count.” Then came AI. The essay “AI – Where” strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ […]

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Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist (Phys.org) In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of...

"The central thesis of her book is that #anthropocentrism - what Webb calls the "human superiority complex"— has pushed our planet to #environmentalcrises such as #massextinctions, #risingsealevels and more."
#ArrogantApe
#toxicreligion
#dominionism
#BigTruth
l.smartnews.com/p-6mnzXVwQ/2...

Jupiter Ascending (2015) - To Live is to Consume Scene (7/10) | Movieclips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE42...

#Anthropocentrism #extremely #racist / #toxic / #HARDLINERS #antihuman #posthuman #anu #inaki #earth #rubbish #smartnews #inbreds #poor #gene #tfl #enki #enlil #combat #warfare

Jupiter Ascending (2015) - To Live is to Consume Scene (7/10) | Movieclips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE42...

#Anthropocentrism #extremely #racist / #toxic / #HARDLINERS #antihuman #posthuman #anu #inaki #earth #rubbish #smartnews #inbreds #poor #gene #tfl #enki #enlil #combat #warfare

Jupiter Ascending (2015) - To Live is to Consume Scene (7/10) | Movieclips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE42...

#Anthropocentrism #extremely #racist / #toxic / #HARDLINERS #antihuman #posthuman #anu #inaki #earth #rubbish #smartnews #inbreds #poor #gene #tfl #enki #enlil #combat #warfare

#speciesism #anthropocentrism

#goVegan

#speciesism #anthropocentrism

#goVegan

Did you know that rejecting speciesism entails rejecting anthropocentrism, but not necessarily the other way around? 🌱

#AnimalRights #EndSpeciesism #AnimalEthics #AnimalJustice #AnimalLaw #AnimalRightsLaw #Speciesism #Anthropocentrism #AnimalSentience #AnimalInterests #EndAnimalExploitation

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The Brave Little Kamikaze Drone
Issue 290
August 26, 2025
#climatechange #globalwarming #meltingseaice #arctic #haboob #phoenix #duststorms #everest #drones #icesheet #deepecology #anthropocentrism #childrapistdonaldtrump #pedonaldtrump #epsteinfiles

Unfortunately, this form of narcissism—that only humans (and more specifically some very special humans, and even more specifically the disembodied thoughts of these very special humans) matter—is central to this culture. #anthropocentrism #anthropocentric
#Derrickjensen #endgame

Many criticisms of #anthropocentrism seem to end up being very anthropocentric.

"Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do" Matti Wilks, Lucius Caviola, Guy Kahane, and Paul Bloom https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620960398

"Does Distance Matter? How Physical and Social Distance Shape Our Perceived Obligations to Others" Julia Marshall, Matti Wilks Open Mind (2024) 8: 511–534. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00138

Recap: The moral circle across development Children appear to be more morally expansive than adults Non-human animals, physically and socially distant others artificial intelligence Why are children's moral circles more expansive? What drives the contraction?

Recap: Unusually altruistic groups Differences in moral judgements for GWWC and vegetarians GWWC pledgers also differ on thinking style Few other differences for vegetarians (non-moral) What drives these differences? Where else might we find them?

What beings are in your #moralCircle?

The 1st keynote by @mattiwilks.bsky.social reported that
- kids, effective altruists (EAs), and vegetarians showed less #speciesism, #anthropocentrism
- EAs performed better on cognitive tests

Follow Dr. Wilks on #gScholar: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Science Isn’t Neutral. It’s Political — and It’s Violent. Science is not some pure, apolitical pursuit of truth. It’s shaped by human decisions, human ideologies, and human hierarchies. In other words, it's inherently political.

Science isn't neutral — it's political and it's violent. Dive into how anthropocentrism fuels the exploitation of animals in labs: riseforanimals.org/news/anthrop...

#AnimalRights #EndAnimalLabs #Speciesism #Anthropocentrism

Be careful what you wish for, when your superego inflates your id.

#Anthropocentrism #UniversalRightsToRoam

A cute green dragon with reddish-brown wings like a bat, fire-breathing. It's embroidered with needle-painting technique and framed in an oval antique bronze frame.

The work in progress: stitching the fire. Behind lays my drawing of a cute cartoon-like dragon.

Throughout my childhood, I hated #StGeorge for having killed that cute #dragon. It was one of my first contacts with #biodiversityLoss and patriarchal #anthropocentrism. With this #embroidery, I took revenge. Long live the #dragons! Our world needs more cute #green beings. 🐉💚 #textileArt #fiberArts

Das Buch-Cover von »Bio-Art« auf orangenem Hintergrund.

[#ArtStudies]
Bio Art challenges the divide between human and non-human animals, between »culture« and »nature«. 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7177-3/

#Anthropocentrism #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #BioArt #Anthropocene #Nature #Culture #Art #Animal

Ecocentric Education: Student Reflections on Anthropocentrism–Ecocentrism Continuum and Justice - Helen Kopnina, 2019 This article discusses liberal arts college students’ perceptions of environmental and ecological justice. Complementing emerging studies of education that tack...

related to #anthropocentrism & the need more #ecocentrism, see Ecocentric Education: Student Reflections on Anthropocentrism–Ecocentrism Continuum and Justice journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🌍 🏞️ What Is... The more-than-human world? youtu.be/vakQsLYp4F0?...

#morethanhuman #ecocentrism #nature #ecology #anthropocentrism

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Tickling the Tsaheylu:
Humans are not supernatural beings. This might, on the face of it, sound like a statement with which the vast majority of us agree. However, it is anything but. Western Agro-industrial civilization holds at it's heart two overriding principles. Principles that it shares […]

Suffering very quickly becomes "the acceptable sacrifice at the altar of Capital". In the extreme, maybe this is why certain modern religions claim outright war is morally just because suffering is valued as "honourable sacrifice" even "majestic." cc @profaliceroberts.bsky.social #Anthropocentrism

#Anthropocentrism is so often unthinkingly assumed. Unquestioned and unchallenged. But it’s a deeply important choice. A bad one.

The study is about "the enriching services wildlife offers to humanity".
That's good, but how many enriching services does humanity offer wildlife?
How about deeply listening to what they're asking us, as just one species among millions, and promoting those viewpoints too?
#anthropocentrism