Posthumanism and environmental ethics: Rethinking nonhuman agency

This chapter focuses on posthumanism and its influence on environmental ethics in terms of posthuman and the non-human. By extending ethical considerations to non-human entities, we are providing agency to the heretofore marginalized others. The chapter further extends this concept to animal, plant, landscapes, artificial intelligence and synthetic life forms. Posthumanism extends agency to non-human entities in matters pertaining to environmental issues. The consequences of this plausibility arefurther looked into in a section dealing with implications in global governance.