
Wild Souls
Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
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Narrated by:
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Amy Landon
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By:
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Emma Marris
From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with - and responsibilities toward - the planet's wild animals.
Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions.
Transporting listeners into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe - from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.
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Hybrid look at life on earth
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Well written, but not very useful in the midst of ecocide.
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Stay until the end
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managed to challenge many ideas I came to hold about nature.
told in an entertaining and knowledgeable packaging.
respectful of indigenous narratives.
incredibly thoughtful and challenged my ideas
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Were scientists consulted for this book?
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For one example of the author’s willingness to say something that will render popularity instead of accuracy, she writes that human fear of snakes began with Christianity. It is not a defense of Christianity to know this is remarkably far from the truth. It seems she needs to make statements like this to prove that, while she does challenge the status quo in brilliant ways, don’t worry, she is always ready to turn off her questioning mind if there is enough societal pressure to do so. This disappointment resurfaces many times throughout the book. However it is still worth reading.
We’ll written and worth reading, albeit full of holes
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