Starting at the Roots

Because ecosocialism is largely concerning economic and social relations, I will discuss the currently radical idea that in order to curb the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems—driven relentlessly by capitalism–we need to seriously question and change course from our general human narrative at the very basic concept of the system that has us at this point—ownership–specifically, the ownership and commoditization of another animal beings and how it intertwines with human oppression. Scholars such as David Nibert combat the hand-in-hand, “mutual agreement” between the human species and others in his book Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism and Global Conflict. We may understand that capitalism requires the exploitation of the human-animal’s labor, but for many well-intended people, the consideration of the exploitation of other animals’ labor–and very lives I would like to place emphasis on “a wider social revolution” because using and relating to other animals logically falls under social relations, like human to human rather than human to tractor.

The Age of Human Driven Extinction, I wrote about the sixth mass extinction that we are currently in, where the extinction rate is at least 1000 times higher than what has been normal since the last great extinction and as the title suggests, is driven by we humans. A passage in Carolyn Merchant’s Major Problems in Environmental History, forever changed my perception on the emergence and status of natural history museums across the world. In a chapter about early explorers and naturalists, there is a section about John James Audubon–famous for his striking paintings of birds and a very well known society of conservation–documenting the killing frenzy that was collection and taxonomy. Without a doubt, if one cares to take seriously the family bonds and emotional lives of other animals, this so-called “suicidal” bull was outraged at the murder of his comrade, possibly his best friend.

The Age of Human Driven Extinction, I wrote about the sixth mass extinction that we are currently in, where the extinction rate is at least 1000 times higher than what has been normal since the last great extinction and as the title suggests, is driven by we humans. A passage in Carolyn Merchant’s Major Problems in Environmental History, forever changed my perception on the emergence and status of natural history museums across the world. In a chapter about early explorers and naturalists, there is a section about John James Audubon–famous for his striking paintings of birds and a very well known society of conservation–documenting the killing frenzy that was collection and taxonomy. Without a doubt, if one cares to take seriously the family bonds and emotional lives of other animals, this so-called “suicidal” bull was outraged at the murder of his comrade, possibly his best friend.

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