Book contents
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moral Considerability
- Chapter 2 Speciesism
- Chapter 3 Wild Animal Suffering
- Chapter 4 Perversity and Futility
- Chapter 5 Jeopardy
- Chapter 6 Relationality
- Chapter 7 Priority
- Chapter 8 Tractability
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 8 - Tractability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Animal Ethics in the Wild
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Moral Considerability
- Chapter 2 Speciesism
- Chapter 3 Wild Animal Suffering
- Chapter 4 Perversity and Futility
- Chapter 5 Jeopardy
- Chapter 6 Relationality
- Chapter 7 Priority
- Chapter 8 Tractability
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter claims that wild animal suffering is not intractable, nor interventions to reduce it are infeasible. To label certain interventions to reduce wild animal suffering as infeasible is merely to state that we cannot achieve them given our current state of knowledge. This is, at best, only partially true, considering the array of low-impact interventions presently available. At any rate, the fundamental discussion is not about which ways of helping animals in nature are already available, but rather whether we have reasons to develop the means that will make it increasingly more feasible to help them. Feasibility should be understood dynamically and conditional upon trying. With regard to large-scale interventions, we can affect their feasibility by putting ourselves in a position to achieve them, both individually and collectively. This could mainly be done by developing welfare biology as a new field of research as well as by adopting a future-focused approach to animal advocacy.
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- Animal Ethics in the WildWild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, pp. 168 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022