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On Humans, Humanism, and All Other Life

Posted by on 3 March, 2019 | 0 comments

On Humans, Humanism, and All Other Life

I have just finished reading the late Douglas Adams’s Last Chance to See, his 1990 book recounting his travels around the world with the naturalist Mark Carwardine to encounter rare and endangered animal species for a BBC radio series broadcast in 1989. In it, Adams uses his abundant wit, scientific knowledge, and deeply humane ethos to show just how absurdly destructive is the human species. The book has prompted me to consider the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, and how this relates to the non-religious outlook on life known as humanism. Adams impresses upon the reader...

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