Introduction By rephrasing the essay question, this essay will be assessing Peter Singer´s argument for animal liberation by describing and evaluating his two main ideas: principle of equal consideration and speciesism. Firstly, this essay will investigate the opinions of his predecessors that were fighting for…
Essays on Environment
We are all mammals, a species, a type animal. As humans through history we have always thought we are somehow special compared to other species. Through the modern times the extent to which animals have become morally considerable beings has been and continues to be…
Ethics are the key component in human advancement. Without ethics, the world would be disorganized and very dangerous. Ethics are moral principles of right and wrong; this then helps everyone in a given community to be treated with respect. American ecologist Aldo Leopold was well-known…
Peter Singer in his extract from Animal Liberation, claims that animal lives should be given the equal consideration and respect as we give to the lives of human and that all animals, both human and non-humans are equal. In his extract, Singer divides his thoughts…
Within these essays, they have a comparison in the environmentalists in agriculture in their approach. In Aldo Leopold’s essay “The Land Ethic”, he outlines the principles of ethical relationships with the Earth. Leopold describes the necessity of changing the way humans think about the land…
The existence of the American world as it stands today has been greatly influenced and reformed throughout history by many leading individuals. These influential leaders varied in topic, movement, reform, and vision; however, most, if not all of these individuals, have impacted much of the…
Imagine you are a baby seal. You are on a piece of ice connected to Antarctica continent. Day by day, you see the bonds that are connecting the piece of ice on the continent melting, but you think it is no big deal. But one…
Across the Earth, there are countless specimens who live alongside us humans. There are evident primitive differences between us and many of these species. However, do these differences account for the different values placed on the rights of these different species? Peter Singer argues that…
Human beings have a responsibility to treat animals with respect and not cause them needless suffering, because they have made it possible for mankind to survive on Earth. However, because normal adult humans seem to have superior cognitive abilities in the hierarchical scale of nature,…
There is a common understanding that whenever many individuals have access to and use a certain resource, there will undoubtedly be deterioration of this resource (Hardin 1968). The dire consequence of the over-usage of common resources has been coined, the tragedy of the commons. A…
Dark Snake Killaz is a full-length narrative film about the protection from the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film investigates moves made by water defenders to stop the development of the oil pipeline and features moves made by law implementation, military, and corporate soldiers of fortune…
Introduction When an infrastructural project such as the Dakota Access Pipeline is going to be built on native land, the native community would heavily oppose its construction by starting a protest. The protest by the Sioux Tribe would attract a lot of attention throughout the…
Introduction American Samoa, also known as the “Motu o Fiafiaga” is a chamber of seven islands located in the Pacific, near the continent of Australia. Praised for its natural beauty, American Samoa’s secluded location has allowed only minimal foreign influences to impact its soil. These…
Around the world people are polluting the entire ocean. How would you like it if someone has thrown trash all over you house or inside? I bet you wouldn’t like that. That’s how sea animals feel about it too! So keep the ocean clean and…
Electricity theft is an progressively common problem in a lot of countries. The theft of electricity is the major interest of transmission and distribution losses in the supply of electricity not in the generation. Power utilities have revealed huge financial losses due to theft and…
