Here For Our Children's Children? - Why we should care for the earth (Paperback)

This study reviews the many different bases for wanting to preserve the environment. By seeing how protagonists approach the same situation from different assumptions, some of the origins of environmental conflict may be established, and ways of resolving conflict can be identified. There are two major issues in environmental ethics: The first asks whether the problems can be solved within current approaches, or require instead lifestyle changes for the whole of western civilization. The second issue concerns why the environment should be valued. This review identifies a series in increasingly stronger valuations that can be identified as: Hedonistic - we protect the environment because we like it; Utilitarian - the environment is valuable to us; Consequentialist - we want to preserve things for other people - now or future; Intrinsic - The environment has virtue in its own right; and, Extrinsic - we value the environment because it is of consequence to some thing else - theistic (a God). Thirdly, these insights are used to explore potential ways of resolving environmental conflicts, notably by the recovery of democratic decision making at the right scale: local, national or even global.

General

Imprint:	Imprint Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Societas
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	July 2009
Authors:	Adrian C. Armstrong
Dimensions:	210 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-84540-169-6
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84540-169-7
Barcode:	9781845401696

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