Uniting the climate justice and animal rights movement

PRESENTATION

Room A + online

Fri, 06.09.2024  18:20-19:00  Central European Time (CET)

This talk presents findings and arguments from Richard Twine's new book, "The Climate Crisis and Other Animals" (Sydney University Press, 2024), in which he underlines that the climate crisis should be seen as a crisis of anthropocentrism. Critical of misguided human-centred framings of the climate crisis, it makes clear the necessity of including practices of animal commodification in understanding the emergence of the climate crisis, the importance of documenting the effect of a changing climate on other animal species, and the mitigative opportunities of a radical remaking of dominant human-animal relations. In doing so, he argues against the view that animal rights in the climate movement is an example of 'trojan horse' politics. He also argues against the popular view that 'being vegan for the animals' is separate from the climate/environmental case. The presentation is both a call for the climate justice movement to transcend its own anthropocentrism and for the animal rights movement to occupy the space of climate politics.