Episode 4

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In the face of the environmental crisis, rethinking human relationships with the natural world is becoming more important than ever. While some religious and nonreligious narratives have placed humans on top of a hierarchy of beings, in this episode, we explore alternative ways of thinking about our relationship with the natural world.

To address these issues, we’re joined by Nancy Menning, a visiting scholar at Ithaca College, Victoria Enkvist, an associate professor of law at Uppsala University in Sweden, and Anita Krajnc, a Toronto-based activist who is the co-founder of Toronto Pig Save and the global Animal Save Movement.

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Further Reading

For more on alternative ways of thinking about biblical stories and nature:

Nancy Menning, “A Myth for the Sixth Mass Extinction: Telling Noah’s Story during a Climate Crisis,” Religions 13, no. 3 (2023): 243.

For more on the idea of “rights of nature” and “nonhuman rights”:

Seth Epstein, Marianne Dahlén, Victoria Enkvist, and Elin Boyer, “Liberalism and Rights of Nature: A Comparative Legal and Historical Perspective,” Law, Culture and the Humanities (2022).
Nonhuman Rights Project: https://www.nonhumanrights.org/
“Orangutan Sandra granted personhood settles into new Florida home,” The Guardian, November 7, 2019.
Nick Perry, “New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori,” Associated Press, August 15, 2022.

For more on the plant-based treaty:

https://plantbasedtreaty.org/