In Nature's Interests?: Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics by Gary E. Varner (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas A & M University)
Gary E. Varner presents a carefully argued response to what he characterizes as two dogmas of environmentalism - the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. He defends a biocentric individualist stance that gives priority to the lives of animals with conscious desires and to certain human interests and shows that such a view is able to support the goals on the environmentalist agenda.