Author: Sharon R. Krause
Human domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us.
Although modern democracy establishes constraints intended to protect people from domination as the arbitrary exercise of power, it offers few such protections for nonhuman parts of nature.
The result is that, wherever we fall in human hierarchies, we inevitably find ourselves both complicit in and entrapped by a system that makes sustainable living all but impossible.
