Environmental Ethics

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volume Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition, including an entirely new chapter on Pollution and climate change and a new section on Sustainability Includes new material on ethical theory as a grounding for understanding the ethical dimensions of the environment, our interactions with it, and our place in it The text incorporates helpful pedagogy, including extensive editorial material, cases, and study questions Includes key information on recent developments in the field Presents a carefully selected set of readings designed to progressively move the reader to competency in subject comprehension and essay writing

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition.* Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volume* Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition, including an entirely new chapter on Pollution and climate change and a new section on Sustainability* Includes new material on ethical theory as a grounding for understanding the ethical dimensions of the environment, our interactions with it, and our place in it* The text incorporates helpful pedagogy, including extensive editorial material, cases, and study questions* Includes key information on recent developments in the field* Presents a carefully selected set of readings designed to progressively move the reader to competency in subject comprehension and essay writing

Notes on Contributors xPreface to the Second Edition xiiSource Credits xivPart I Theoretical Background 11 Ethical Reasoning 3Michael Boylan2 The Self in Context: A Grounding for Environmentalism 14Michael BoylanEvaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical EthicalViewpoint 253 Worldview Arguments for Environmentalism 32A. The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology 35The Land Ethic 35Aldo LeopoldThe Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary42Arne NaessWhat Is Social Ecology? 46Murray BookchinB. Eco-Feminism and Social Justice 59Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory 59Carolyn MerchantThe Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism 64Karen J. WarrenPatently Wrong: The Commercialization of Life Forms 71Wanda TeaysC. Aesthetics 83Aesthetics and the Value of Nature 83Janna ThompsonWorldview and the Value-Duty Link to Environmental Ethics95Michael BoylanEvaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts 1094 Anthropocentric versus Biocentric Justifications 115A. Anthropocentric Justifications 118Human Rights and Future Generations 118Alan GewirthEnvironmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism 122Onora O'NeillB. Biocentric Justifications 135Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World135Holmes Rolston IIIRespect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics 152Paul W. TaylorC. Searching the Middle 163Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric EnvironmentalEthics 163James P. SterbaOn the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and NonanthropocentricEnvironmental Ethics 176Brian K. SteversonReconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson 186James P. SterbaEvaluating a Case Study: Assessing Embedded Levels 191Part II Applied Environmental Problems 1995 Pollution and Climate Change 201A. Air and Water Pollution 203Blue Water 203Michael BoylanPolluting and Unpolluting 216Benjamin HaleMoral Valuation of Environmental Goods 231Mark A. SeabrightB. Climate Change 243Does a Failure in Global Leadership Mean It's All Over?Climate, Population, and Progress 243Ruth IrwinCollective Responsibility and Climate Change 257Seumas MillerEvaluating a Case Study: Applying Ethical Issues 2686 Animal Rights 275All Animals Are Equal 277Peter SingerThe Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights 291Tom ReganA Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory 300Mary Anne WarrenMary Anne Warren and "Duties to Animals" 308Michael BoylanAgainst Zoos 313Dale JamiesonEvaluating a Case Study: Structuring the Essay 3217 Sustainability 329A. Sustainability: What It Is and How It Works 331Defining Sustainability Ethics 331Randall CurrenA Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics,and the Problem of Moral Corruption 345Stephen M. GardinerSustainability and Adaptation: Environmental Values and theFuture 358Bryan G. NortonB. Sustainability and Development 371'Sustainable Development': Is It a Useful Concept?371Wilfred BeckermanOn Wilfred Beckerman's Critique of Sustainable Development387Herman E. DalyEvaluating a Case Study: Cases on Sustainability 393Further Reading 394