Much “animal ethics” tends to focus on how nonhuman animals matter for the ethics of individual choices. This book is a welcome complement to that focus, providing a valuable guide to thinking about large-scale issues confronting humanity, with a specific focus on climate change and pandemics. The distinctive aim of the book is to introduce these issues in a way that
takes seriously the ethical significance of nonhuman animals, and
recognizes important deep uncertainties both about the world and about ethics.
Sebo’s central thesis is that public policy and advocacy should take nonhuman animals into account, both centrally and noninstrumentally. I understand the book as having three distinctive parts: chapters 2–4 make the core case for Sebo’s thesis, chapter 5 lays out an excellent schematic proposal for how we should include consideration for nonhuman animals in policy and advocacy, while chapters 6–8 provide a crash course in some of the...
