This might be of interest:
Is the Human Species Special?: Why human-induced global warming could be in the interests of life By approaching the environmental crisis from the perspective of the issue of whether the human species is special (if the human species is not special then it would be just another species of animal) the, perhaps surprising, conclusion is reached that human-induced global warming could be in the interests of life. In the first part of the book I consider the question of why it is that humans consider themselves to be special. I make a distinction between a singular cause of this 'sense of specialness' and the plethora of rationalisations that humans make as to why their species is special. I propose that all of these rationalisations are erroneous (assuming, for the moment, that the universe is not purposive). In the second part of the book I develop an account in which the human species is special because of the place that it occupies in the evolution of life on Earth, and I locate the environmental crisis and human-induced global warming within this evolutionary progression. In the absence of a 'purposive' universe the human species would not be special. This unique perspective on the human species and the environmental crisis has implications for how we should deal with global warming. There are, of course, many potentially negative effects of global warming, and a proposal is made as to how these negative effects can be minimised. More details can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/190796200X/ref=nosim?tag=cranmorpublic-20 http://www.cranmorepublications.co.uk Best wishes Neil University of Reading
