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Published: May 18, 2021, 7 a.m.

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The narrative of human exceptionalism posits that there is something unique about being human that makes us more valuable. And we believe that what matters most are the things that seem to separate us from animals\\u2014like our ability to reason or the immortal human soul. But what if you can\\u2019t separate the animal part of us from our spirit? What if being human IS being animal?

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Melanie Challenger is a writer of environmental history, podcast host of Enter the Psychosphere, and author of the new release, How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Melanie joins Ross to share her argument against substance dualism, explaining why we can\\u2019t separate the idea of being human from that of being animal.

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Melanie offers insight on how we can \\u2018become animal\\u2019 without reverting to amoral, self-serving behaviors and why she sees the simple, clean messaging around environmental issues as being problematic. Listen in to understand Melanie\\u2019s take on the human battle with mortality and learn to accept that life is finite but not fear death.

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Resources

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Melanie Challenger\\u2019s website

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Enter the Psychosphere Podcast

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How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger

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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger

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Paul Kingsnorth on Reversing Climate Change S2EP53

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George Monbiot

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Caspar Henderson

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Thomas Aquinas\\u2019 Philosophy of Angelology

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The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are by Alan Jasanoff

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Sam Harris

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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

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Alan Watts Organization

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