The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation
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- doi:10.3390/conservation1040022
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- Haydn Washington · John Piccolo · Erik Gómez‐Baggethun · Helen Kopnina · Heather Alberro
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- 2021
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- en
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Karlstad University · Northumbria University · Norwegian Institute for Nature Research · Norwegian University of Life Sciences · Nottingham Trent University · UNSW Sydney
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Anthropocentrism in Western (modern industrial) society is dominant, goes back hundreds of years, and can rightly be called ‘hubris’. It removes almost all moral standing from the nonhuman world, seeing it purely as a resource. Here, we discuss the troubling components of anthropocentrism: worldview and ethics; dualisms, valuation and values; a psychology of fear and denial; and the idea of philosophical ‘ownership’. We also question whether it is a truly practical (or ethical) approach. We then discuss three troubling examples of anthropocentrism in conservation: ‘new’ conservation; ecosystem services; and the IPBES values assessment. We conclude that anthropocentrism is fuelling the environmental crisis and accelerating extinction, and urge academia to speak out instead for ecocentrism.
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- 10.3390/conservation1040022
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Haydn Washington; John Piccolo; Erik Gómez‐Baggethun; Helen Kopnina; Heather Alberro. The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation. 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation1040022
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- Haydn Washington; John Piccolo; Erik Gómez‐Baggethun; Helen Kopnina; Heather Alberro. (2021). The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation1040022
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- Haydn Washington; John Piccolo; Erik Gómez‐Baggethun; Helen Kopnina; Heather Alberro. The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation. 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation1040022
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