Conservation, Restoration, Reparation
Even though we can never fully recompense these apex predators for what they’ve lost, having their own sanctuary can help to heal the deep wounds we have inflicted upon the fabric of nature itself.
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Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly back to “normal” if your…
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The Growth Monster
“Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy.” That…
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King Lear, Nature and the End of the World
“The possibility of genuine chaos, real cannibalizing barbarism, is closer to the surface than we can possibly imagine.” Oscar Eustis, artistic director, New…
Cecil Is the Least of It
End These Religious Festivals Now!
How SeaWorld Is Like Scientology
An Emerging Consciousness
Bernie, Belugas and the Home Depot
“Whew,” Bernie Marcus mutters to himself. “As long as everyone’s talking about SeaWorld, they won’t be coming after my Georgia Aquarium. At least not for the…
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly…
Life and Death in the Parks
On a summer Sunday afternoon, Highway 12 in Southern Utah is busy with cars and luxury coaches ferrying vacationers from all over the world to Bryce…
Cecil Is the Least of It
At least Walter Mitty didn’t harm anyone in his fantasies of a heroic life. The same can’t be said for Walter Palmer, a nonentity who imagined…
End These Religious Festivals Now!
It’s hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for people like 20-year-old Benjamin Miller, who required three hours of surgery last February after being gored…
Walmart’s Animal Welfarism
Animal welfare groups are jumping for joy over Walmart’s latest animal welfare announcement. But it’s hard understand why. The company is asking its suppliers “to engage…
How SeaWorld Is Like Scientology
If you’ve seen how SeaWorld is responding to John Hargrove’s new book Beneath the Surface, it’s hard to miss the similarities with Scientology’s dirty tricks campaigns…
Killing Them Softly
A headline last week in a trade publication called The Poultry Site proudly proclaimed: “Animal Welfare at Slaughter Improves in UK.” Welcome to the Orwellian world…
Believe It or Not
Sandra tries to hide in her pen at the Buenos Aires Zoo In the first-ever case of its kind, an orangutan at a zoo in Argentina…
Of Popes, Pets and Paradise
If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s an afterlife, you’ve probably found yourself making a mental list of the people you’d look forward to seeing there. This…
The Growth Monster
“Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the…
Hope and Faith in a Time of Destruction
In the Ancient Greek drama Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Prometheus tells of the terrible mistake he made in giving humans self-awareness and enlightenment. The “gift”, he…
Climate Change: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t & What’s Next
The People’s Climate March in New York City was the biggest march in history, demonstrating that more people than ever are now saying that concern about…
Ebola, Chimpanzees and Fear of the ‘Other’
What does this August 29th Newsweek cover say to you, with its rather menacing-looking chimpanzee and a caption suggesting that these animals and the people from…
ASPCA Head Joins Pet Breeding Industry
Ed Sayres, the former President of the ASPCA, has accepted an invitation from the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), the lobbying arm of the pet…
Hoofin’ It Up with the Humane Society
As some 90 diners trekked around four restaurants in Denver this week, Angela Huffman of the Humane Society of the United States, which is sponsoring the…
Yazidis, Ethnic Cleansing & the Denial of Death
Two weeks ago, I’d never even heard of the Yazidi people. This week, they’re top of the news, driven from their homes in Iraq by the…
King Lear, Nature and the End of the World
“The possibility of genuine chaos, real cannibalizing barbarism, is closer to the surface than we can possibly imagine.” Oscar Eustis, artistic director, New York’s Public Theater.
An Emerging Consciousness – Part Two
Does the empathy that certain people have with nonhuman life constitute the seed of a new kind or level of consciousness?
Could it be possible for a body of people, who are of like mind and heart in relation to our fellow animals, to give rise to a new kind of collective consciousness?
At a time of mass extinction, it’s a notion that, however fanciful, may be the only future available to us.