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Ecology, Economics, Ethics - The Broken Circle (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ecology, Economics, Ethics - The Broken Circle (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues
that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view
them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the
relations-the interconnected circle-among ecology, economics, and
ethics. Currently the circle is broken, they say, because
environmental policy is decided on short-term estimations of
material that take little account of the economic or moral burdens
that will be borne by future generations if we deplete our
resources now. We must, assert the authors, have a better knowledge
of the science underlying our environmental problems, we must
understand their causes and consequences in relation to our
economic and political systems, and we must recognize that an
effective response will require a shift in a technologically
oriented society's ethical attitude toward the natural environment.
The authors address a wide range of concerns from global
atmospheric degradation and spreading toxification of the
environment to loss of forests and massive species extinctions.
They offer to general readers, students, and professionals
practical assessments and remedies for many of these problems. They
suggest, for example, mechanisms that provide economic incentives
for conservation; engineering and technical adaptations to use
resources more effectively and dispose of waste products; better
economic accounting procedures for measuring the real environmental
costs of our depletion of natural resources; and a remodeled
education system that better prepares us to see each individual's
responsibility to the environment.
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