Venomous Lumpsucker

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Beauman also seems to imply that all this talk about animals going extinct is ultimately about ourselves, not about ethics, and I agree -- the fact that Richard Powers seemed to favor the opposite view in the grandstanding Bewilderment is one of that book's biggest shortcomings. But that doesn't save Beauman's satire completely: is this book nihilist, or does it only pretend to be? It would have been stronger if he had positioned himself more either way.

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