It’s high time for ‘peace talks’ with the non-human world Barbara Ehrenreich

oronavirus has stopped us in our tracks and forced us to rethink our position as the rulers of the world. You could say it has done us a favour. For about 2,000 years most humans have imagined themselves to be the Earth’s “apex predators” – smarter, faster and more deadly than any other creature with which we share the planet. An article in a 2018 special issue of Scientific American praised our species