Anthropocentrism as the scapegoat of the environmental crisis: a review

Anthropocentrism has been claimed to be the root of global environmental crisis. Based on a multidisciplinary (e.g. philosophy, animal ethics, anthropology, law) and multilingual (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese) literature review, this article proposes conceptual analysis ‘anthropocentrism’ reconstructs often implicit argument that links anthropocentrism The variety usages concept described in reveals many underlying disagreements under apparent unanimity calls reject anthropocentrism, both regarding what exactly is problem, nature possible solutions. It highlights limitations as scapegoat crisis identifies two main challenges faced by attempts go beyond anthropocentrism: an epistemological challenge knowledge place sciences, metaethical related values cultural pluralism. Beyond issue anthropocentric point view, core problem might intertwinement views assumptions work together undermine protect environment from greed some humans, such human-nature dichotomy, capitalism, consumerism, industrialism, etc. Finally, suggests making nuances presuppositions underlie various versions anti-anthropocentric rhetoric explicit necessary foster constructive dialogue among different anti-anthropocentrism proponents, well with their detractors.