This is something interesting that I’ve been thinking about too, as someone who identifies as an environmentalist and who cares about animals. I would say most mainstream environmentalists promote rewilding but it’s not that common with Effective Environmentalism from what I’ve seen so far. You might say it gets lumped in with afforestation but that isn’t exactly rewilding nor that popular within EE anyway. Certainly the issue of more wild animal suffering is one I’ve raised when talking to less-EA aligned folks about rewilding and that’s not gone down well but I haven’t seen it discussed much in EE spaces.
Good point, thanks. However, even if EE and Wild animals welfare advocates do not conflict in their intermediary goals, their ultimate goals do collide, right? For the former, habitat destruction is an evil, and habitat restoration is good—even if it’s not immediately effective.
This is something interesting that I’ve been thinking about too, as someone who identifies as an environmentalist and who cares about animals. I would say most mainstream environmentalists promote rewilding but it’s not that common with Effective Environmentalism from what I’ve seen so far. You might say it gets lumped in with afforestation but that isn’t exactly rewilding nor that popular within EE anyway. Certainly the issue of more wild animal suffering is one I’ve raised when talking to less-EA aligned folks about rewilding and that’s not gone down well but I haven’t seen it discussed much in EE spaces.
Good point, thanks. However, even if EE and Wild animals welfare advocates do not conflict in their intermediary goals, their ultimate goals do collide, right? For the former, habitat destruction is an evil, and habitat restoration is good—even if it’s not immediately effective.