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Author: Patrick Curry

Patrick Curry is a writer and scholar living in London England. He is the author of Ecological Ethics: An Introduction, rev. edn (2017) and the editor-in-chief of The Ecological Citizen. For more information and articles, see his website www.patrickcurry.co.uk
Animal rights, Human supremacy

The death of Freya

Let’s not indulge in euphemism. Freya was a living mammal like us, who wanted to live. What you ordered was not euthanasia but a killing, or a murder. Continue reading The death of Freya

Patrick Curry29 August 202211 January 2023
Animal rights, Human supremacy, Values

What change? Whose reconciliation?

On Friday 22nd April, an unusual ceremony took place in Winnipeg, Canada. Represented by its governor, the Hudson’s Bay Company gave its massive retail store in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, dating from 1881, to the Manitoba First Nations. Continue reading What change? Whose reconciliation?

Patrick Curry21 June 202211 January 2023
Identity politics

The poverty of identity politics

Considered ecocentrically, identity politics and exclusive social justice activism have serious flaws. They include encouraging destructive human narcissism, a stunted range of ethical sympathy, and a disregard for a healthy natural world as the precondition for any politics at all. Continue reading The poverty of identity politics

Patrick Curry1 October 202010 February 20221 Comment

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