by Dr. Steven Best
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The human species is driving itself full speed into an evolutionary dead-end. We are destroying the planet and everything we do murders animals and dismantles ecosystems.
We have lost our moral compass. We think in terms of profit and power rather than ethics and compassion.
We no longer have reverence for life or any sense of connection with the natural world.
We see ourselves as conquerors of nature rather than citizens of a vast biocommunity.
We are technologically sophisticated and morally stunted. We have no conception of the importance of nonhuman life forms in sustaining ecosystems and no sensitivity to the inherent value of species outside of our exploitative purposes.
We fail to realize that what we do to animals and the Earth, we do to ourselves.
And all the while, people live in a fantasy land of entertainment and distractions in which they focus more on the sex lives and surgical makeovers of celebrities than the greatest challenge our species has ever confronted:
How can we overcome our dominator mentalities, our alienation from the natural world, and our unsustainable social systems to harmonize our existence with one another, other species, and the Earth overall before it is all too little, and much too late?
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Dr. Steven Best is NIO’s Senior Editor of Total Liberation. Associate professor of philosophy at UTEP, award-winning writer, noted speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist, Dr. Best engages the issues of the day such as animal rights, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media, globalization, and capitalist domination. Best has published 10 books, over 100 articles and reviews, spoken in over a dozen countries, interviewed with media throughout the world, appeared in numerous documentaries, and was voted by VegNews as one of the nations “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians.” He has come under frequent fire for his uncompromising advocacy of “total liberation” (humans, animals, and the earth) and has been banned from the UK for the power of his thoughts. From the US to Norway, from Sweden to France, from Germany to Russia to South Africa, Best shows what philosophy means in a world in crisis.
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