I often say I'm misanthropic, but really I think I'm just trying to strike a different balance. This quote by Graeme Gibson in an otherwise often hilarious interview with Ramona Koval on Radio National's Bookshow shows how heavily our priorities are currently skewed to just humans.
"… of all charitable giving, in North America at least and our European friends say it's similar over there, 97 per cent of it goes to human causes—hospitals, education, this disease, that disease. And of the 3 per cent that's left, 1.5 per cent (that is, half of the 3 per cent) goes to our pets, so that in all charitable giving in North America, 1.5 per cent goes to non-human nature. It's not enough. It's not that one shouldn't be giving money to the other things but that balance is so preposterous and it's a very clear indication of why we're doing what we're doing. We're so self-centred as a species."
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2115781.htm
