Word: speciesism
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There is a hint of proselytizing within the houses Murcutt designs. They require the people in them to remain very aware of their wider environment. Murcutt's homes protect but don't alienate inhabitants from their surroundings. "There are psychological benefits in feeling sun in winter, shade in summer--knowing...
All the colors and patterns you see--the visible evidence of the complex working of the natural systems that make our planet habitable--seem both vast and precise, powerful and yet somehow fragile. You see volcanoes spewing smoke, hurricanes roiling the oceans and even fine tendrils of Saharan dust reaching...
For starters, let's be clear about what we mean by "saving the earth." The globe doesn't need to be saved by us, and we couldn't kill it if we tried. What we do need to save--and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up...
--BIODIVERSITY: More than 11,000 species of animals and plants are known to be threatened with extinction, about a third of all coral reefs are expected to vanish in the next 30 years and about 36 million acres of forest are being razed annually. In his new book, The Future...
The damage being done is more than aesthetic. Many vanishing species provide humans with both food and medicine. What's more, once you start tearing out swaths of ecosystem, you upset the existing balance in ways that harm even areas you didn't intend to touch. Environmentalists have said this...