World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet
May 2021 · Oxford University Press
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The philosopher Mark Rowlands takes a novel perspective on the problem of climate change and how to address it. With energy consumption at the core of the issue, he claims climate, extinction, and pestilence as three epoch-defining environmental issues of our time. Rowlands proposes a single solution to all three: breaking our collective habit of eating animals. Bringing to bear analytic rigor and empirical data, Rowlands argues that reversing the industrial farming of animals for our consumption will both significantly reduce energy emissions and allow for free space to aggressively reforest land being used by industrial animal farms to mitigate the effects of climate change.
About the author
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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