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
