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Marc Bekoff

Marc is a biologist, ethologist, behavioural ecologist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the co-founder, with Jane Goodall, of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former Guggenheim fellow. He lectures internationally on animal behavior, cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), and behavioral ecology, and writes a science column about animal emotion for Psychology Today. He is an advocate for the compassionate conservation movement that aims to improve environmentalism by embedding a moral concern for individual sentient animals. In 1986 Marc won the Master’s age-graded Tour de France. Marc is a vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

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Citizens’ Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants

Eva Meijer, philosopher and artist, on Sentientism episode 245 talking about multispecies politics.
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Citizens’ Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants

Eva Meijer, philosopher and artist, on Sentientism episode 245 talking about multispecies politics.
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2 Meetups, 2 Podcasts and a Jubilee Surrounded Debrief!

I can’t quite believe it’s taken this long, but thanks to Michael we have our first ever global, online Sentientism meetup scheduled on 9th May. Sign up here for free. […]
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Have We Fallen for the Greatest Deception?

Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu discusses his tour de force book, The Omnivore's Deception. Sentientism episode 244.
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