Animals in the Room: Why We Can and Should Listen to Other Species – Melanie Challenger

How might our human systems work differently if they were adapted
to receive input from the nonhuman creatures they involve and
impact? In this week’s narrated essay, writer and ethicist Melanie
Challenger considers what it would take to expand the democratic
imagination to include and represent animal voices in the decisions
that affect them. Advocating for a quieting of our own narratives
so that we might recognize political signals from the behaviors of
the vast community around us, she envisions the revolutionary
mechanisms which could make present the expressions of animals
within our systems of power. Read this story on our website. Sign
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