About this episode

The episode explores a 10th-century Islamic fable where animals put mankind on trial for the extraction economy, questioning human exceptionalism and complicity.

And when the child cannot speak for itself? Humanity’s first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy. We unsettle the habitus of human exceptionalism to ask: would we change the story’s ending because we couldn’t handle our own complicity? Discover the original […]

Topics covered

• animal rights
• human exceptionalism
• extraction economy
• ethical dilemmas
• storytelling
• complicity

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