Melanie Challenger: Human Exceptionalism is Devastating Life on Earth
This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast
Emergence Magazine is an online publication with annual print edition exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. As we experience the desecration of our lands and waters, the extinguishing of species, and a loss of sacred connection to the Earth, we look to emerging stories. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, narrated essays, stories and more.
In this narrated essay, environmental philosopher Melanie Challenger examines the belief in human exceptionalism that has devastated life on this planet, and wonders if our desire to outrun death is hindering our capacity to love.
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Melanie Challenger works as a researcher and broadcaster on the history of humanity and the natural world, and environmental philosophy. Her books include On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature and How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human. She hosts the podcast Enter the Psychosphere, on diverse intelligences. She is deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
Annalise Neil lives and works in San Diego, California. In 2006, she received a BFA in printmaking from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Annalise has exhibited her work at juried shows throughout the United States over the last fifteen years. Her work resides in public and private collections across the US and in Europe.
