Part I: The Past Has No Future | ||||
Chapter 1: Current and New Human Ecologies | ||||
Two Human Ecologies | ||||
Mega, Presence, and Economic Predation | ||||
Disrespect for a Whale | ||||
Pushing on Human Ecology | ||||
Visionaries | ||||
The Obstacle to Our Survival | ||||
Lumps | ||||
Homo sapiens Express | ||||
Avoiding Past Behavior and Future Tragedy | ||||
Chapter 2: The Seven Results | ||||
The Synergy Factor | ||||
Limiting Factors: Do as I Say, or the Tree Dies | ||||
Interconnected | ||||
Chapter 3: Our Worldviews, the Problems they create, and | ||||
a Profile of Where They Have Taken Us | ||||
Killer Views | ||||
Global Norms as Blindness | ||||
Dairy Me Not | ||||
Taking Responsibility | ||||
Chapter 4: The Bullet Points at Our Hearts | ||||
Humanity | ||||
Other Species: Wild | ||||
Other Species: Animal Agriculture | ||||
Earth | ||||
Planets | ||||
Chapter 5: Perspective/Views of the View | ||||
A Vital Perspective | ||||
Transoceanic | ||||
From Fertilizer to Poverty | ||||
The Most Important Dilemma: Problems with Flawed Choices | ||||
Give Us Our Daily Food Web | ||||
Cross Pollination | ||||
Relax | ||||
Dismissing Philosophers | ||||
Pollanist Destiny | ||||
The Omnivores’ Disappointment | ||||
Bell-Ringers | ||||
Chickens and Eggs | ||||
More or Less Different? Our Sense of Other | ||||
My Youth | ||||
Chapter 6: Beyond Anthropomorphism | ||||
Early Imprinting | ||||
Flowing Empathy | ||||
Paying Attention and Knowing Empathy | ||||
At the Intersection of Our Empathy and the World | ||||
Plastic Out/Plastic In | ||||
Crossing Dexter Avenue | ||||
Killing Whales | ||||
Part II: We are Neo-Predators | ||||
Chapter 7: Meet Mega Predator | ||||
Mega Predator + Presence Predator + Economic Predator | ||||
Carnist Vampires | ||||
Killing Elephants | ||||
Killing Lions | ||||
Poisoned | ||||
Eating Elephants: Trophies and Ivory Accessories | ||||
The Trophy Business | ||||
The Fishers | ||||
Scraping for a Living | ||||
Bycatch | ||||
The Next One Hundred Years | ||||
Sinking Sharks | ||||
No Middle Ground | ||||
Chapter 8: Meet Presence Predator | ||||
Soundscape Ecology | ||||
Our Presence in the Congo Basin | ||||
Turn Down the Volume | ||||
Alien Invasion | ||||
The Presence of Cars, Roads, and Barriers | ||||
What Road Barriers Do | ||||
Going Over and Under | ||||
Presence Predation at Fur Rendezvous | ||||
Chapter 9: Meet Economic Predator | ||||
Economic Predation | ||||
Eating Salmon Like an Economic Neo-Predator | ||||
The Great Human Divorce: Separating Ourselves from | ||||
Cause and Effect | ||||
Reconnecting | ||||
Part III: Destinations | ||||
Chapter 10: The Incomplete Environmentalist | ||||
Sounding the Depths | ||||
Incomplete Environmentalists and Other Advocates | ||||
NGOs Giving Comfort | ||||
Crawling, Not Walking | ||||
Species and Ecosystem Rights, and Species versus Individuals | ||||
Mixed Experiences | ||||
Deep Ecology | ||||
Suffering Ecosystems | ||||
An Inconsistent Relationship with Earth | ||||
What Revolution? Still Grazing the Prairies and Forests | ||||
The Bison Realm | ||||
How Many? | ||||
Paddling Up the River of Denial | ||||
Chapter 11: Vegan Human Ecology/The New Ecosystem Niche for Humans | ||||
Conversion | ||||
Pay Up or Die | ||||
Would You Like Shoes or a Handbag with That Ecosystem? | ||||
Our Place or Theirs? | ||||
Human Halitosis | ||||
Invest in Vegan Futures | ||||
Stealing Food from Wildlife | ||||
Chapter 12: Transnational Private Property: The New Commons | ||||
Multidimensional Tragedy | ||||
Private Parts, Public Domain | ||||
The Growing Global Village | ||||
This Land Is Our Land and Theirs | ||||
Inverting Eminent Domain | ||||
Ecosystem Dominion Is Our Goal | ||||
Part IV: The Human Ecology Of Managing Ecosystems | ||||
Chapter 13: Recognizing the Corruption | ||||
Asking and Offering | ||||
Departments of Ecosystems, Flora, and Fauna | ||||
Minority Control and Oppression | ||||
Ecosystem and Wildlife Management Schemes | ||||
Seattle Was | ||||
Chapter 14: Limits to Human Agency Abilities | ||||
The Five Insufficiencies | ||||
The First Insufficiency: Sufficient Knowledge | ||||
The Second Insufficiency: Political Will and Social Consensus | ||||
The Third Insufficiency: Economic Systems That Protect | ||||
and Heal Ecosystems | ||||
The Fourth Insufficiency: An Appropriate Human Ecology | ||||
The Fifth Insufficiency: Access to Sufficient Resources | ||||
and Human Effort | ||||
What Wildlife Management Allows: The Canned Hunt | ||||
Exotic Texas | ||||
Exotic Africa | ||||
New Human Ecology and Wildlife Management | ||||
Chapter 15: Establishing Relationships | ||||
Killing Wolves | ||||
The Alaskan Aerial Wolf Killers | ||||
Move Over, Alaska | ||||
More on Species vs. Individuals | ||||
Individuals Are Important | ||||
Agencies, Animal Rights, and Vegans | ||||
More on Un-Natural Selection | ||||
Chapter 16: Wildly Out of Control | ||||
Relationships | ||||
From Tank to Hunting | ||||
Relationships and Bowhunters Afield | ||||
Agency Responses | ||||
Birds | ||||
Mammals | ||||
Hunter s Want a Medal of Honor | ||||
More Agency Culture | ||||
Briefly Selected Highlights | ||||
Spare Change | ||||
Part V: Impediments | ||||
Chapter 17: Cultural Objections | ||||
Facing Ecosystem Collapse | ||||
Global Cultural Responsibilities | ||||
More on Poverty | ||||
Subsistence | ||||
Bushmeat | ||||
Cultural Approaches to Implementing the New Human Ecology | ||||
Being Anthropocentric about Other Cultures | ||||
Chapter 18: Washing Away the Answers: Green, Blue, Humane, and Religion Washing | ||||
Cant Get the Dirt Out | ||||
Green Washing | ||||
Humane Washing | ||||
Blue Washing | ||||
Religion Washing | ||||
Happy Death, Happy Meat | ||||
Nothing Sweet on the Other Side of the Fence | ||||
Chef | ||||
Happy Media | ||||
The Hole of It | ||||
Part VI: Hope | ||||
Chapter 19: This Is the Hope | ||||
The New Human Ecology: Seven Results and How You Can | ||||
Achieve Them | ||||
Change | ||||
The Seven Results Revisited | ||||
Population: The Ethics of Carrying Capacity for Humans | ||||
The New Human Ecology: What It Will Do | ||||
Chapter 20: You Are the Hope | ||||
Never Allow Carnists to Define or Control Our Human Ecology | ||||
References | ||||
Recommended NGOs and Links | ||||
End Notes |