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Here’s an article asking “Why Should We Care About The Environment?” which explains how a Sentientist perspective on environmental and climate change challenges might differ from the most common perspectives of today’s environmental movement.

Animal agriculture’s impact on both climate and environment is a central concern for many Sentientists. That’s mainly because of our compassion for the trillions of sentient beings exploited, harmed and killed by those industries. It’s also because there’s a powerful taboo that seems to block much of the environmental movement from seeing or addressing the catastrophic impacts of animal agriculture. That taboo is being broken down (see the Barbecue Earth and Table‘s Meat: Four Futures and Feed podcasts as examples) – but even that refreshing discourse seems constrained by widespread assumptions that 1) animal agriculture simply must continue in some form (so let’s just tweak it a bit) – and 2) that a transition to a plant-based agricultural system, for some reason, can’t be an obvious (and already existing!) solution to the biggest ethical and environmental issues our agriculture systems cause.

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The Wood Wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? – Forest Ecologist Justine Karst on Sentientism ep:220

Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. A Sentientism conversation in part about the wood wide web and whether plants feel pain.
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The Wood Wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? – Forest Ecologist Justine Karst on Sentientism ep:220

Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. A Sentientism conversation in part about the wood wide web and whether plants feel pain.
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Free “Teaching the Sentientism Worldview” webinar – Jan 23

Happy New Year and a Happy New Term! Our FREE “Teaching the Sentientism Worldview” webinar for the Spring term is on Jan 23rd from 16:00-17:30 UK time. Sign up at Eventbrite […]
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“A dual indoctrination…” – Jim Mason on Sentientism Ep:219

A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world with author and activist Jim Mason.
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