Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "cultural-change"

At this point, there are at least three kinds of common sense leading towards the end of animal wars. One is scientific, and involves our growing knowledge of the roles that each creature plays in keeping the world balanced—especially the top predators that we used to treat as our worst enemies. The second kind of common sense is economic, in that a commercial interest in animals involves sustaining the resource. The third sort of common sense is political. And this involves Aldo Leopold’s notion that we are citizens rather than conquerors of the natural world.
War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals