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Environmental Ethics Today, Paperback / softback Book

Environmental Ethics Today Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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The world's economy expands, food production increases, and technology links people as never before.

But the human population grows, rainforests decline, species become extinct, climate change threatens extreme weather, cancer kills more than ever, and nearly a billion people starve as the gap between rich and poor widens.

Environmental Ethics Today addresses these matters by exploring beliefs of fact and value guiding human interactions with nature.

The style is journalistic, featuring actual controversies and individual stories, but the content is philosophically rigorous.

Abstract theories, ideas, and methods, such as utilitarianism, contractarianism, and hermeneutics are introduced as needed to understand and solve practical problems.

Should respect for nature limit genetic engineering?

Is economic growth the best measrure of progress or can materialism inhibit family values?

Does globalization mostly help Third World countries or harm people and poor women?

Are experiments on animals immoral? Is biodiversity valuable apart from any human advantage?

Overall, does human welfare conflict with nature's integrity. Environmental Ethics Today considers many views including those of Aldo Leopold, Vandana Shiva, Garrett Hardin, Peter Singer, Julian Simon, David Korten, Jane Goodall, Holmes Rolston III, J.

Baird Callicott, Karen Warren, Tom Regan, Val Plumwood, Wendell Berry, Father Thomas Berry, Daniel Quinn, and Arne Naess.

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