Such an honour to talk to the most important people in the world (religions and worldview teachers) about the Sentientism worldview's "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." Sentientism podcast episode 210 is a cross-post of my appearance on Louisa Smith's 🤩 The RE Podcast. I hope you enjoy. Go subscribe to both! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-to-the-most-important-people-in-the-world/id1540408008?i=1000666106027

Thanks for helping 🥰 nudge humanity towards "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings":
- YT: 200k views & 14k subs
- Podcast: 65k plays & 1200 subs
- X: 5.1k followers
- FB group: 2.3k from 110 countries
- Sub-reddit: 1.7k
- And...: https://sentientism.info/groups ✊

If humanity adopted the #Sentientism worldview’s “evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings” - how would our world be different?

Here’s some ideas - help us improve them!
https://sentientism.info/sentientism-in-action

Want a positive reason to reject #speciesism (& all the other harmful discriminations)?
How about the #Sentientism worldview: "Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings"?
Happy World Day for the End of Speciesism 🙌
#WODES #EndSpeciesism
https://end-of-speciesism.org/en/our-demands/

We also need "better stories". Because evidence, reason & compassion will only take us so far...
Ecolinguist Arran Stibbe 🤩 joins me for #Sentientism ep:211 on YT & pcast.
https://sentientism.info/being-more-rather-than-having-more-ecolinguist-arran-stibbe-sentientism-ep211

"Wonderful show" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Compassion meets scientific thinking. I wish more people embraced sentientism. All sentient being deserve our moral consideration equally!”
Thanks to blai S from Austria 🇦🇹 for this kind review of the Sentientism podcast. Why not give our 211 episodes a listen? If you like it - be like blai and rate or review to help more minds find us.

Our FREE "Teaching the Sentientism Worldview" webinar for the Autumn term is on Sep 26th from 17:30-18:30 UK time. Sign up below and share it around. The session is targeted at teachers but anyone is welcome to join. Reply if you have any questions - or if you'd like to share your experiences of teaching Sentientism in the classroom! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/952586280207

We now have a #SentientistEducation playlist on YouTube...
What other playlists should we create to help people navigate through our 212 inspiring episodes?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCWbJbTmx9G9zDML7QFQvd-

“You don’t really have to convince people to be compassionate”
Jesse Tandler 🤩, MD of New Roots Institute joins me for Ep:212 on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Subscribe there (or see the SentientistEducation playlist above) to find our full conversation - and here's a TikTok clip! https://www.tiktok.com/@sentientism/video/7412698269375057184

In fact here it is directly!

"There’s enough spirituality just in appreciating a walk in a forest..."
Author of "The Climate Crisis & Other Animals", sociologist Richard Twine, joins me for #Sentientism ep:213 on YT & Podcast. Find our full conversation there via link below and here's a clip!
https://sentientism.info/spirituality-is-a-great-way-in-which-capitalism-commodifies-peoples-belief-richard-twine-sentientism-ep213

"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik, authors of "Our Kindred Creatures" join me for ep: 214 of the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast. Find our conversation there & here's a clip.

How we’re trying to nudge humanity towards the #Sentientism worldview’s “evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings”:

teaching in schools (& teaching teachers)
online communities
academic outreach
podcast
YouTube
writing
social media

Come help! 🥰

Do you care about wild and free-ranging animals? Here's a new playlist of our #Sentientism conversations with a focus on wild animal ethics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcXzG-dxoZHCRV8QtWV-a8JQIrv9e8po1

"That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of FarmKind joins me for episode 215 of the Sentientism podcast and YouTube - find our full conversation there and don't forget to subscribe!

If "70% of people live in countries where expressing humanist values is severely repressed"... then what % of people live in countries where expressing Sentientist values ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings") is severely repressed? https://fot.humanists.international/

Could a secular version of reincarnation encourage us to be more compassionate? https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/09/reincarnation-secular-style/ by Nathan Alexander in The Freethinker

Edging towards #SentientistEconomics?
The Animal Welfare Economics Working Group: https://www.aw-econ.org/home

Thoughts? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jonathan-birch-on-animal-sentience/id1406534739?i=1000673018225

Listen and learn about the wonderful work of VINE (Veganism in Education) - integrating veganism into UK education. Great to have both Michelle and Louisa (the host) in our FB group! https://www.therepodcast.co.uk/post/s12-e9-the-one-about-veganism

If rights are just “declared” based on group membership then they lack a moral foundation.

If they’re grounded in #sentience (the capacity for experiencing, for valuing, for having a perspective & interests) their foundation is strong.

And they go way beyond humanity.