The climate crisis and other animals / Richard Twine.

Format:

Book

Series:

Animal politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Effect of global warming on.

Animals.

Climatic changes.

climate change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 407 pages).

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

University of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The book examines the ways in which climate breakdown is affecting nonhuman animal species and delves deeply into the politicised controversy over the extent of emissions from animal agriculture, demonstrating the markedly lower emissions of eating vegan. Critical of misguided human-centred framings of the climate crisis, Twine makes clear the necessity of including practices of animal commodification, the importance of documenting the effect of a changing climate on other animal species, and the mitigative opportunities of a radical remaking of dominant human-animal relations. The Climate Crisis and Other Animals addresses the emissions impacts of radical land-use changes and the twentieth century scaling-up of animal commodification within the animal-industrial complex, revealing how this system is interwoven in the gendered and racialised histories of capitalism. Twine collates an impressive body of scientific research that demonstrate both the already enormous impact of the climate crisis on the lives of nonhuman animals and the need to tackle the dominance of meat-based cultures. Twine critically explores approaches to food transition and three potentially transformative scenarios for global food systems that could help dismantle the animal-industrial complex and create a more sustainable and just food system. Averting the climate and biodiversity crises requires nothing less than a radical transformation in how we see ourselves in relation to other species.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on July 8, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1743329024

9781743329023

OCLC:

1425870407

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.