Word: speciesism
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And, to a degree that's easy to lose sight of today, their efforts succeeded. Air and water in most of the developed world are dramatically cleaner than they were in 1970. Millions of acres of forests, wetlands and wilderness have been preserved. Once endangered species like the bald eagle...
Under pressure from the U.S., Japan agreed last November to put its sperm whalers, among the last practitioners of an ancient profession, out of business by 1988. American conservationists, who consider whaling a senseless slaughter of an endangered species, were not satisfied. Greenpeace and eleven other environmental groups sued the...
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The hope shared by the spacemen is that by working together toward a common goal, the two nations might somehow put aside their differences. "It's hard to imagine a more dramatic and fitting symbol on behalf of the human species," said Sagan. "We should embrace not the god of...
It is a wondrous bestiary tended by young Taran and his winsome would-be princess Eilonwy. The menagerie includes Hen Wen, the clairvoyant pig, whose bottom is rounder and wigglier than Madonna's; Gurgi, whose species is unknown, but who is definitely cute, cuddly and comical; the Fairfolk, minuscule fairy...