Anthrarchy:

the systematic suppression or discounting of the importance and influence of nonhuman forms of life; institutionalized norms and values that reflect and reinforce the conception of a biological hierarchy of beings.

Philosophical Basis of Anthrarchy: Exclusionary Human Dignity (speciesism)

Goal: Save as many human lives as possible (in some cases creating as many as possible)

Tenets:

  1. There is no good greater than human potential.
  2. Humanity can solve any problem it creates collectively.

Implied Tenets:

  1. saving human life in the short run is worth depleting quality of life in the medium run.
  2. increasing quality of life in the short/medium run is not gambling in the long run, even if nonhuman quality of life decreases (or biodiversity in general) through destruction of the environment because [see tenets 1 and 2].
  3. there is no such thing as an ecosystem in which humans cannot be included.
  4. there is a moral right to life but not to death (dignity as restraint).
  5. every individual human has a moral right to choose which and how many resources/freedoms they utilize to satisfy her quality of life – so long as they do not appear to affect negatively other individuals or humanity collectively in the short run (dignity as empowerment).
  6. nonhuman quality of life or existence is irrelevant other than how it supports human quality of life or existence.