Christopher James Preston

Grounding episode five takes a stab at an age-old question: what is a human’s place within nature? Host Sarah Aronson speaks to two environmental philosophers—Soazig Le Bihan and Christopher J. Preston—about that divide, and tugs at the dissonance that exists when we’re trying to understand our place in the world relative to other creatures. Are we supposed to go forth and conquer, or should we be ashamed of the impact we’ve had on different species?

This week, TWQ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle in his podcast studio for a conversation with environmental philosopher Christopher Preston, author of ‘Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals.’

We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting…