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Thinking Like a Planet - The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (Paperback)
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Thinking Like a Planet - The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (Paperback)
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Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and
environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of
blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of
climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach.
Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what
Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of
climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little
hope that anything will be done in the face of its "perfect moral
storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept
this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself,
and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as
we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory by
exploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth
ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a
seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics
that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the
environmental movement gathered strength.
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