Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application

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Organized into two main parts, the first on theory and the second on applications, the third edition of this popular anthology provides the most comprehensive set of readings available for environmental ethics and includes topic areas not covered in other anthologies. The text follows a dialogic pro-con format to present different and conflicting views on each topic. Articles have been carefully selected for clarity and accessibility.
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Organized into two main parts, the first on theory and the second on applications, the third edition of this popular anthology provides the most comprehensive set of readings available for environmental ethics and includes topic areas not covered in other anthologies. The text follows a dialogic pro-con format to present different and conflicting views on each topic. Articles have been carefully selected for clarity and accessibility.
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In this new edition of a text for undergraduates, Pojman (philosophy, U.S. Military Academy in West Point) presents 81 readings covering topics such as animal rights, world hunger, the intrinsic value of nature, biocentric and ecocentric ethics, deep ecology, ecofeminism, and the Gaia hypothesis. Readings are presented in a pro/con format. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780867209518
  • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Publication date: 1/1/1994
  • Series: Philosophy Series
  • Pages: 537

Meet the Author

Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the United States Military Academy and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He wrote in the areas of philosophy of religion, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy and is the author or editor of more than 30 books and 100 articles. Among these are ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG (6/e 2009), ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (5/e 2008), WHO ARE WE? (2005), and GLOBAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (2003).

Paul Pojman completed his Ph. D. at Indiana University, in the department of History and Philosophy of Science. He is currently Assistant Professor at Towson University in the Philosophy Department, and Associated Faculty with the Environmental Studies and Science Programs.

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction
On Ethics and Environmental Concerns 1
What Is Ethics? 3
Part 1 Theory 5
Chapter 1 Western Philosophy of Nature: The Roots of Our Ecological Situation 10
1 Genesis 1-3 11
2 The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis 13
3 The Cultural Basis of Our Environmental Crisis 19
4 The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Attitude to Nature 24
Chapter 2 Animal Rights 29
5 Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth 31
6 A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation 33
7 The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights 40
8 A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory 46
9 Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair 51
10 What Animal Liberation Is and Isn't About 62
11 Against Zoos 69
Chapter 3 Does Nature Have Intrinsic Value? Biocentric and Ecocentric Ethics and Deep Ecology 75
Does Nature Have Intrinsic Value? 76
12 Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species 76
13 Comments of Holmes Rolston's "Naturalizing Values" 86
14 Nature 89
Biocentric Ethics 95
15 Reverence for Life 95
16 Biocentric Egalitarianism 100
17 On Being Morally Considerable 112
Ecocentric Ethics 119
18 Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic 119
19 The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic 126
20 Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness 136
Deep Ecology 147
21 The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement 147
22 Ecosophy T: Deep Versus Shallow Ecology 150
23 Deep Ecology 157
24 A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Ethics 162
25 Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology 168
26 Ecological Sensibility 176
27 Environmental Justice: Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Ethics 179
Chapter 4 Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology 189
28 The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism 189
29 A Critique of Ecofeminism 199
Chapter 5 Preservation of the Species, Nature, and Natural Objects 205
30 Biodiversity: The Key to Saving Life on Earth 206
31 Why Do Species Matter? 208
32 The Golden Rule--A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis 214
33 What's Wrong with Plastic Trees? 218
34 Faking Nature 229
35 The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature 235
36 Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects 240
Chapter 6 Non-Western Perspectives on Environmental Ethics 249
37 Satyagraha for Conservation: Awakening the Spirit of Hinduism 250
38 The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature 256
39 Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law, and Society 260
40 An African Perspective on the Environmental Crisis 265
41 Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique 271
Chapter 7 Obligations to Future Generations 278
42 Who Cares for Posterity? 278
43 Limited Obligations to Future Generations 284
44 Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem 289
Part 2 Practice 297
Introduction 298
Chapter 8 Population: General Considerations 299
45 A Special Moment in History: The Challenge of Overpopulation and Overconsumption 302
46 The Tragedy of the Commons 311
47 The Central Immigration Issue: How Many Americans? 318
48 The Unjust War Against Population 331
49 China's Baby Budget 341
50 Licensing Parents 348
Chapter 9 Population and World Hunger 355
51 Lifeboat Ethics 356
52 Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics 363
53 Famine, Affluence, and Morality 367
54 Vegetarianism and "the Other Weight Problem" 373
55 The World Food Supply: The Damage Done by Cattle-Raising 380
Chapter 10 Pollution: General Considerations 384
56 You Are What You Breathe 386
57 We All Live in Bhopal 391
58 Against the Doomsdayers! 395
59 People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution 404
Chapter 11 Pesticides 408
60 Silent Spring 409
61 The Blessings of Pesticides 413
62 Environmental Hysteria: The Alar Scare 417
63 Is Silent Spring Behind Us? 426
Chapter 12 Atmospheric Conditions: The Greenhouse Effect and the Ozone Layer 431
64 The Heat Is On: The Greenhouse Effect 432
65 The Greenhouse Effect: Hype and Hysteria 439
Chapter 13 Economics, Ethics, and the Environment 447
66 Of the Stationary State 452
67 Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Ecological Realities 455
68 Consumption: The Economics of Value Added and the Ethics of Value Distributed 461
69 At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic 467
70 A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis 474
71 Neoclassical Economics and Principles of Sustainable Development 482
Chapter 14 Ecology and Global Justice 489
72 The Rio Declaration (1992) 489
73 Just Garbage 492
74 Deceiving the Third World: The Myth of Catching-up Development 499
Chapter 15 From Dysfunctional to Sustainable Society 505
75 Dysfunctional Civilization 506
76 Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy 515
77 Environmental Ethics and Democracy: A Response to Westra 528
78 An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising 533
79 Pedaling Power: Sustainable Transportation 539
80 Strategic Monkeywrenching 542
81 Vision of a Sustainable World 545
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