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ABSTRACT. “I’d like to share with you a revelation I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.” “Agent Smith,” The Matrix (1999)

Keywords: anthropocentrism; environmentalism; ecocide; (un)sustainable development; consumerism

STEVEN BEST
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University of Texas,
Departments of Humanities and Philosophy;
El Paso, The United States of America

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