大象传媒

As awareness grows of the destructive impact of people on the natural world, four writers explore our attitude to animals and attempt to uncover what our human values are.

Two vivid stories of human dominion over the natural world infuse the Abrahamic faiths: Adam鈥檚 naming of the animals and Noah鈥檚 stewardship of animal pairs to safety during the floods. In both, God is said to have given mankind dominion 鈥渙ver the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

Today, whether dominion means stewardship or power, non-human animals are in serious trouble. The human population is 300 times what it was, while non-human animals are diminishing in species and number.

Set in Holland, Zimbabwe, India and Scotland and building on a story by JM Coetzee called The Lives of Animals (1999), this series explores attitudes to non-human animals at a point in human history when it has never been more important to reflect on the impact of people on the natural world.

Four different writers from the sciences and the humanities take a different perspective to frame their inquiry.

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