We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth.
Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales
at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental
intervention, never before has the collective impact of human
behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet.
Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the
basic conditions of all life into the indefinite future. What
should we do? How should we behave? In what ways ought we organize
and respond? The future of the world as we know it depends on our
actions today. A cutting-edge introduction to environmental ethics
in a time of dramatic global environmental change, this collection
contains forty-five newly commissioned articles, with contributions
from well-established experts and emerging voices in the field.
Chapters are arranged in topical sections: social contexts
(history, science, economics, law, and the Anthropocene), who or
what is of value (humanity, conscious animals, living individuals,
and wild nature), the nature of value (truth and goodness,
practical reasons, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and aesthetics),
how things ought to matter (consequences, duty and obligation,
character traits, caring for others, and the sacred), essential
concepts (responsibility, justice, gender, rights, ecological
space, risk and precaution, citizenship, future generations, and
sustainability), key issues (pollution, population, energy, food,
water, mass extinction, technology, and ecosystem management),
climate change (mitigation, adaptation, diplomacy, and
geoengineering), and social change (conflict, pragmatism,
sacrifice, and action). Each chapter explains the role played by
central theories, ideas, issues, and concepts in contemporary
environmental ethics, and their relevance for the challenges of the
future.
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