TY - BOOK AU - MITCHELL Audra TI - Only human?: a worldly approach to security PY - 2014/// KW - GLOBAL ETHICS KW - ANTHROPOCENTRISM KW - GLOBAL SECURITY KW - ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY N2 - The tendency to focus on human aspects of security is too limited. Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as well as man-made disasters pose threats to entire biosystems of which humans are only a part. This article discusses in philosophical terms the need for a different concept, and proposes the idea of mundicide (world death). Illustrate the argument with a case study of large scale petrochemical pollution in Ecuador by Chevron-Texaco in the 1990s UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010613515015 ER -