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The Most Dangerous Animal on Earth? The One That Forgot It’s an Animal.
In The Arrogant Ape, a primatologist dismantles the myth of human exceptionalism and shows why humility—not mastery—may be the most important trait for our species’ future.
MICHAEL KOVNAT. SEP 03, 2025. Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts:
Think you’re pretty smart? If you’re human—and odds are you are—you’ve probably been taught to believe you’re not just different from other animals, but better. But that story is wrong, and it’s dangerous. NYU primatologist Christine Webb argues that human exceptionalism has blinded us to the intelligence all around us—and it’s fueling today’s biggest crises, from climate change to mass extinction. In her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters, Christine makes the case that humility—not hubris—may be our species’ best survival strategy.
“I discovered a whole new area of music,” he said. “All of these things in the natural world are far more complex and far more interesting than anything that I’ve ever heard humans write, or compose.”
“If we listen to sounds of the natural world, for example, which are the original soundscapes that we were exposed to, it’s very restorative and therapeutic,” he said.
Since the late 1960s, American musician and bioacoustician Bernie Krause (born 1938) has collected more than 5,000 hours of recording of natural habitats, including more than 15,000 wild species from all around the world. His approach is unique: he contemplates the natural world as a poet, listens to animal vocalizations as a musician and studies the organization of the sounds of each habitat scientifically through a graphical representation, or spectrogram. The analysis of these soundscapes reveals that animal vocalizations are organized as a score and that inside any given ecosystem each species has its own “acoustic niche.”
“I discovered a whole new area of music,” he said. “All of these things in the natural world are far more complex and far more interesting than anything that I’ve ever heard humans write, or compose.”Type your paragraph here.
y. Ocean care to praise sustainable fishing
David Attenborough shows an angry and political side in new film Ocean
Unprecedented footage of a commercial trawler’s net dredging the ocean floor animates the 99-year-old like never before
David Attenborough in new documentary ‘Ocean’ ©
FT MAY 15 2025
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David Attenborough has just turned 99. In other words, he’s 11 years older than Pope Francis was when he died, and 18 years older than Joe Biden was when he withdrew from the US presidential race.
Still, the great conservationist soldiers on.
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What’s most notable about Ocean is how angry Attenborough becomes. Old age has (thankfully) not taken away his velvet voice, but it does seem to have made him more political.
The object of his anger is the fishing industry — in particular, its technique for trawling the bottom of the sea. “Over three quarters of a trawler’s catch may be thrown away,” he says. “It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish.” Bottom trawling involves fishing boats dragging iron nets along the sea floor, catching every animal in their path and damaging the seabed itself. The makers of Ocean have managed to get unprecedented footage of the process: attaching a camera to a commercial trawler’s net. Greenpeace has tried to get similar footage and failed. Even for those who have heard of bottom trawling, seeing it in colour and sharp focus is shocking. We see fish, including a ray, trying to escape. Huge amounts of sand and carbon are thrown up from the seabed. One of Ocean’s directors, Keith Scholey, has said that some of the worst images — “terrible shots of all these spider crabs being crunched up because the dredge has these teeth” — were cut from the final film because they were deemed too upsetting. Attenborough likens bottom trawling to bulldozing a rainforest. Very few places are safe from this — including “almost nowhere in my own country” (Britain), he adds. We also see how scallop-dredging turns the sea floor off western Scotland from life-filled pink to dead grey. Ocean takes care to praise sustainable fishing practices.
Robert Macfarlane: Are we being Good Ancestors
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Gorongosa — how a national park destroyed by civil war is bouncing back Once home to guerrillas — for whom it offered an airstrip and a plentiful supply of free-range meat — the Mozambican park has made a remarkable recovery
David Pilling. Financial Times PublishedJun 18 2025
Your life is Manufacured
Your Life Is Manufactured — the genius and perils of supply chains
James Crabtree Ft Feb 19, 2025
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The Guardian interview w/Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) & Closed Loop "Cradle to Grave" Design & Manufacturing
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Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis)[1] is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. Designers use this process to help critique their products. LCAs can help avoid a narrow outlook on environmental concerns by:
Compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases;
Evaluating the potential impacts associated with identified inputs and releases;
Interpreting the results to help make a more informed decision.
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A River is Alive : Legal Rights for Nature.
Why our planet (and not just its people) should have legal rights New books by Robert Macfarlane and Tony Juniper strengthen the case for granting the natural environment protection in law on par with personhood
Ft April 26, 2025. FT Philippe Sands
When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, her words, with their graphic warnings about pesticides, gave rise to a new environmental consciousness that still hadnt reached my corner of London by the mid-1970s, when I was a schoolboy.
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For international law, which was beginning to give serious attention to environmental issues, the moment of catalytic change came with the Chornobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As radioactive rains fell in Wales and elsewhere, farmers were banned from selling their lamb. As a young academic, I was invited to Washington to a conference on international law and transboundary air pollution, about which I knew nothing.
One thing led to another, as I read Carson, delivered a lecture, published a book and started to write legal opinions on diverse subjects, from nuclear pollution to the conservation of whales. Along the way, a colleague introduced me to Should Trees Have Standing?, a law review article (and later a book) by a Californian scholar published a decade after Carson. Since our society is accustomed to corporate personhood, wrote Christopher Stone, why couldnt natural ecosystems have rights of their own?
The heart of the issue raised by Carson and Stone was the fundamentally anthropocentric nature of our legal world, and over time other writers have taken up the cudgels for an approach that is more ecocentric, that makes the wellbeing of the natural world an end in itself. This is the direction now taken by renowned nature writer Robert Macfarlane, in his latest book Is a River Alive?
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Can awe change the way we see the world?
Anjana Ahuja Ft PublishedJAN 5 2023
Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives January , 2023 , ft
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner Allen Lane £25, 336 pages
Sensational: A New Story of Our Sense by Ashley Ward Profile £20, 320 pages
What’s at Stake Is the Future of Humankind
Brad Wieners / Mar 14, 2019 / Activism, Our Footprint
Yvon Chouinard shares how our company continues to do what it can to defend the soil, air and water we all depend on—and to confront the greatest threat to our welfare we’ve ever faced.