U.N. Climate Change Report: LINK
On Dr. Richard Ryder's use ot the term speciesism ( which term the moral philosopher Peter Singer later made more popular):
(1)How does the hearing of this U.N. report on the climate crisis affect you,your values, your sense of the world and its future? What human beliefs or values today will more likely prevent needed changes in our way of life, methods of production, or government policies? And what beliefs or values will more likely lead to the kind of changes needed to address the climate crisis?
(2) Do you think humans are biased against animals,as moral philosophers like Peter Singer express with the term speciesism, and do you think this speciesism is comparable to other human biases such as racism, as Richard Ryder claimed in the 1970s? Why or why not?
U.N. Climate Change Report: LINK On Dr. Richard Ryder's use ot the term speciesism ( which term the moral philosopher Pe
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