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Life has become a matter of policy and nature is commodified. Green economy promotes sustainable consumer behaviours, a contemporary oxymoron that hides new forms of consumerism.
To truly be able to allow for non-human animal representation one must reconcile with the fact that we are arrogant parvenues compared to the rest of the natural world, sharing with it genes and finiteness alike, regardless of opposing thumbs and written language.
Non-human animals are asymmetrically caught between advocacy, activism and academia and are the object of a polarized, and perhaps inevitable, anthropocentric cultural and political discourse related to a chronic us vs them or it vs the other position.
In pre-religious and shamanistic cultures, the relationship with the natural world was pragmatic and invested with spiritual significance. Contrariwise, urbanization and ‘modernity’ is connected to a distancing from the natural world, vis-à-vis a dangerous underappreciation of human–nature interdependence, with all that entails.
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