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No, i couldnt say im confident. i think it is — i think it is a risk. i think it would be wise if we could have a pause now so we can reflect before we go further. but given that this is a global issue and, again, you have to go back to many other countries that are working on al — including china — are we going to get global agreement to pause and take stock before we go too far? im not at all confident that we will. peter singer, its been a great pleasure talking to you. thank you for be...

Looking after my mother, because she had reached the stage where she no longer recognised anybody and i dont think she was capable of enjoying her life in any way, i would have asked the doctor to withdraw life support at an earlier stage. a final thought, peter singer. people around the world are fascinated by your thoughts on all sorts of different things — and i do want to ask you about the rise and the power of artificial intelligence because, again, it seems to me, philosophically, it get...

Youre right that at the moment, they dont, and china is enormously increasing its production of animals and its all through this industrialised production. theyre building 26—storey buildings that are just full of pigs who, of course, never leave those buildings. and im very keen for these ideas to become global and to spread to other countries. but can you understand when people in china and other emerging economies, too, might listen to your argument and think to themselves, "theres somethin...

Author Peter Singer brings climate change and animal rights activism into a new era.

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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella and A Death In The Parish by Reverend Richard Coles

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I wasnt aware of climate change until the 1980s - hardly anyone was - and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed,

When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In recent weeks, I have been touring the United States and the United Kingdom, promoting "Animal Liberation Now," my new book on the ways in which we are inflicting suffering on hundreds of billions of nonhuman animals, especially in factory farms. The persistence of this vast, entirely unnecessary suffering is one of the great moral issues of our time. Some people doubt this claim because they think that h...