In the Pixar movie, WALL-E, set a few hundred years in the future, humans have no direct contact with one another, are relatively helpless, and spend all day interacting only via television. As did many of my friends, I felt that the film got the...
In her 2024 book, Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie (Scottish data scientist and researcher at the University of Oxford) begins by noting surveys that document how pervasively young people today feel that "humanity is doomed" and "the future is frightening." She responds...
The anthology. resulting from a conference organized by Compassion in World Farming, Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets (2025, Routledge Press) and edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna, includes thirty-four chapters addressing how society could produce, distribute and consume food for the well-being of humans,...
Book review of Cowpuppy by Gregory Berns, published by Harper Collins, 2024 As in the immortal film classic about the rescue of Elsa the baby lion, where the opening scenes cover the struggle to persuade the motherless cub Elsa to drink milk to survive, Gregory Berns also...
The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger & Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence Recently, two important books were published -- a year apart – and centered on the same topic: reviewing the accumulating scientific evidence that plants can and should be perceived as sentient...
The new autobiography, The Life of Pei (not Pie), 2024, published by Lantern Publishing & Media (Woodstock, New York), covers over five decades in the life of the author as well as the growth of animal rights and welfare networks in Asia, beginning in Taiwan...
Such an Array of Umwelts Ed Yong’s 2022 instant classic, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, delves into the senses of our animal cousins, including sight, sound, pain, smell, touch, vibrations, electric fields, and magnetic fields, and explains for the...
