The Two Dark Sides of Covid-19

Singer, Peter; Cavalieri, Paola

doi:10.5840/tpm20209072

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“…to lead to a reassessment of the risks and benefits of some relationships with the natural world by people. For example, in terms of risks, we have seen movements to counter all kinds of human-wildlife interactions that have led to the closure of wildlife markets such as the Wuhan Animal Market in China 36 , where Covid-19 disease is likely to be the first leap. From animal to human.…”

Section: Demographic Effects and Changes In Environmental Criteriamentioning

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Covid-19 Crisis and Environmental Law: Opportunities and Challenges

Norouzi

Ataei²

2021

Hasanuddin Law Rev.

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With the outbreak of Covid-19 globally, many measures were taken to reduce this epidemic’s effects. The most important of these was the advice to stay home, which became the main line of witness slogans. With this recommendation, schools, offices, and factories were closed. The Covid-19 epidemic has had a profound effect on people’s lifestyles and is likely to have other consequences. The article’s main question is: What opportunities and challenges do the Covid epidemic pose to the environment, and how does it affect environmental rights? Quarantine policies have led to reduced production and transportation and a significant reduction in the pollution caused by these behaviors. Other effects may become apparent immediately. Covid-19 may increase survival damage in the future against contamination. Other developments may occur, including rethinking environmental and economic values and rethinking how resources are allocated and consumed, as Covid-19 affects the global, national, and local economies. Considering each of these consequences and their effects can help to develop environmental law and formulate effective strategies.

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Section: Demographic Effects and Changes In Environmental Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Covid-19 Crisis and Environmental Law: Opportunities and Challenges

Norouzi

Ataei²

2021

Hasanuddin Law Rev.

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“…Of course, as we mentioned at the outset, some animal activists didn't use COVID-19 to challenge intensive animal agriculture generally. Instead, they called for the end of wet markets specifically (e.g., Stubler and Sebo 2020;Singer andCavalieri 2020, andBenatar 2020). 6 What, exactly, were they criticizing?…”

Section: Using Covid-19 Against Wet Markets: Backfiringmentioning

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Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: a Case Study in Indirect Activism

Spiehler

Fischer

2021

Food ethics

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There were excellent reasons to reform intensive animal agriculture prior to COVID-19. Unfortunately, though, intensive animal agriculture has grown rapidly over the last century. All signs indicate that it will continue to grow in the future. This is bad news for billions of animals. It’s also bad news for those who want an animal-friendly food system. Because the public isn’t very concerned about the plight of animals—or is concerned, but has a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance—animal activists regularly engage in indirect activism . Indirect activism involves arguing that some cause that’s indirectly related to the activist’s primary agenda provides reasons to act in ways that are congruent with that agenda. In this paper, we consider the two indirect arguments that animal activists advanced in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: first, some used COVID-19 to criticize intensive animal agriculture—many of these had US-based audiences as their target; second, and more modestly, some activists used COVID-19 to condemn wet markets specifically. We contend that both arguments had the risk of backfiring: they risked promoting the very systems that are worst for animals. We then assess the moral significance of this risk, concluding that while it may have been permissible to advance these arguments, there were some serious moral considerations against doing so—ones that weren’t addressed by flagging animal activists’ concern for animals or any other stakeholder in the discussion. In both cases, we think there are plausible precautionary arguments against the strategies that these activists pursued. Additionally, in the case of arguments against wet markets specifically, we contend that the precautionary argument can be supplemented with a side constraint condition that, arguably, activists violated insofar as they were acting in ways that maintain a racist and xenophobic system.

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A bolder One Health: expanding the moral circle to optimize health for all

Coghlan

Capon

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One Health Outlook

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One Health is a ground-breaking philosophy for improving health. It imaginatively challenges centuries-old assumptions about wellbeing and is now widely regarded as the ‘best solution’ for mitigating human health problems, including pandemic zoonotic diseases. One Health’s success is imperative because without big changes to the status quo, great suffering and ill-health will follow. However, even in its more ambitious guises, One Health is not radical enough. For example, it has not embraced the emerging philosophical view that historical anthropocentrism is an unfounded ethical prejudice against other animals. This paper argues that One Health should be more imaginative and adventurous in its core philosophy and ultimately in its recommendations and activities. It must expand the circle of moral concern beyond a narrow focus on human interests to include nonhuman beings and the environment. On this bolder agenda, progressive ethical and practical thinking converge for the benefit of the planet and its diverse inhabitants—human and nonhuman.

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The Two Dark Sides of Covid-19

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Covid-19 Crisis and Environmental Law: Opportunities and Challenges

Covid-19 Crisis and Environmental Law: Opportunities and Challenges

Animal Agriculture, Wet Markets, and COVID-19: a Case Study in Indirect Activism

A bolder One Health: expanding the moral circle to optimize health for all

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