Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
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Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
Another idea overturned by the feedback perspective is anthropocentrism—or seeing ourselves as the center of activities.
Humanity no longer looks at itself with quite as much unabashed admiration as it once did. Fewer people today believe that we are made in God’s image or have any natural rights to dominion over the earth. We are aware of our capacity for self-destruction,
our species is to survive, never mind to flourish, for at least as long as high civilizations have been around (that is, for another 5,000 or so years), then we will have to make sure that our continuing interventions do not imperil the long-term habitability of the planet—or,