Contributor
Pojman, Louis P.
Edition Statement:4th ed.
Imprint:Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005.
Descriptionxiii, 678 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note:Introduction: On ethics and environmental concerns -- What is ethics? -- PART ONE: THEORY: Ch. 1. WESTERN PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: THE ROOTS OF OUR ECOLOGICAL SITUATION: Genesis 1-3 -- The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Lynn White -- The cultural basis of our environmental crisis / Lewis W. Moncrief -- The Judeo-Christian stewardship attitude to nature / Patrick Dobel -- The ideological implications of atomism / Freya Mathews -- Ch. 2. ANIMAL RIGHTS: Rational beings alone have moral worth / Immanuel Kant -- A Utilitarian defense of animal liberation / Peter Singer -- The radical egalitarian case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- A critique of Regan's animal rights theory / Mary Ann Warren -- Against zoos / Dale Jamieson -- Ch. 3. PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF NATURE, BIOCENTRIC ETHICS, ECOCENTRIC ETHICS, AND DEEP ECOLOGY: Naturalizing values: organisms and species / Holmes Rolston III -- Comments on Holmes Rolston's "Naturalizing values" / Ned Hettinger -- Nature / John Stuart Mill -- Reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer -- Biocentric egalitarianism / Paul Taylor -- On being morally considerable / Kenneth Goodpastor -- Ecocentrism: the land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- The conceptual foundations of the land ethic / J. Baird Callicott -- Refocusing ecocentrism: de-emphasizing stability and defending wildness / Ned Hettinger, Bill Throop -- The great new wilderness debate: an overview / Michael Nelson -- Two kinds of preservationist ethics / Roger Paden -- The shallow and the deep, long-range ecological movement / Arne Ness -- Ecosophy T: deep versus shallow ecology / Arne Ness -- Deep ecology / Bill Devall, George Sessions -- A critique of anti-anthropocentric ethics / Richard Watson -- Social ecology versus deep ecology / Murray Bookchin -- Ecological sensibility / John Rodman -- Environmental justice: reconciling anthropocentric and nonanthropocetric ethics / James P. Sterba -- Ch. 4. PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES, NATURE, AND NATURAL OBJECTS: Biodiversity: the key to saving life on earth / Donella H. Meadows -- Why do species matter? / Lilly-Marlene Russow -- The golden rule: a proper scale for our environmental crisis / Stephen Jay Gould -- What's wrong with plastic trees? / Martin H. Krieger -- Faking nature / Robert Elliot -- Should trees have standing? toward legal rights for natural objects / Christopher D. Stone -- Ch. 5. THE NON-WESTERN WORLD AND ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY: Satyagraha for conservation: a Hindu view / O.P. Dwivedi -- The Buddhist attitude towards nature / Lily De Silva -- Islamic environmental ethics, law, and society / Mawil Y. Izzi Deen -- An African perspective on the environmental crisis / Segun Ogungbemi -- Radical environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a Third World critique / Ramachandra Guha -- Ch. 6. OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS: What has posterity ever done for me? / Robert Heilbroner -- Who cares for posterity? / Garrett Hardin -- Limited obligations to future generatios / Martin Golding -- Energy policy and the further future: the identity problem / Derek Parfit -- PART TWO: PRACTICE: Ch. 7. POPULATION: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: A special moment in history: the challenge of overpopulation and overconsumption / Bill McKibben -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The unjust war against population / Jacqueline Kasun -- China's baby budget / Jodi Jacobson -- Licensing parents / Hugh LaFollette -- Population and the environment / Clark Wolf -- Ch. 8. POPULATION AND WORLD HUNGER: Lifeboat ethics / Garrett Hardin -- Population and food: a critique of lifeboat ethics / William W. Murdoch, Allan Oaten -- Hunger, duty,, and ecology: on what we owe starving humans / Mylan Engel, Jr. -- Can Frankenfood save the planet? / Jonathan Rauch -- The world food supply: the damage done by cattle-raising / Tristram Coffin -- Ch. 9. POLLUTION: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: You are what you breathe / Hilary French -- We all live in Bhopal / George Bradford -- A moment on earth: a defense of ecorealism / Gregg Easterbrook -- People or penguins: the case for optimal pollution / William F. Baxter -- Ch. 10. PESTICIDES: Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The blessings of pesticides / Dixy Lee Ray, Louis Guzzo -- Environmental hysteria: the Alar scare / Michael Fumento -- Is silent spring behind us? / David Pimentel -- Ch. 11. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS: THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT: The heat is on: the greenhouse effect / Christopher Flavin - The greenhouse effecct: Dixy Lee Ray, Louis Guzzo -- A rational assessment of the problem of global warming / Bjørn Lomborg -- Ch. 12. ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: In defense of steady-state economics / John Stuart Mill -- Sustainable development: economic myths and global realities / William E. Rees -- Consumption: the economics of value added and the ethics of value distribution / Herman E. Daly -- At the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or why political questions are not all economic / Mark Sagoff -- On the value and limits of cost-benefit analysis / David Schmidtz -- Neoclassical economics and principles of sustainable development / Robert Goodland, George Ledec -- Ch. 13. ECOLOGY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: From global ethics to international law instrument / The Earth Charter -- Just garbage: the problem of environmental racism / Peter S. Wenz -- Deceiving the Third World: the myth of catching-up development / Maria Mies -- Ch. 14. FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL TO SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY: Dysfunctional society / Al Gore -- Environmental risks, rights, and the failure of liberal democracy: some possible remedies / Laura Westra -- An ecological critique of global advertising / Alan Thein Durning -- The challenge of the future: private property, the city, the globe, and a sustainable society / Louis P. Pojman -- Ecology and community design / Todd Saunders -- Sustainable transportation / Louis P.Pojman -- Strategic monkeywrenching / Dave Foreman -- A vision of a sustainable world / Lester Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel.
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