Is there an ecological ethic?
Date
1975
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
University of Chicago Press, publisher
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Abstract
The environment is on the world agenda, also on the ethical frontier, for the foreseeable future. Environmental ethics is about saving things past, still present. Environmental ethics is equally about future nature, without analogy in our past. Living at one of the ruptures of history, modern cultures threaten the stability, beauty, and integrity of Earth, and thereby of the cultures superposed on Earth. Environmental ethics must find a satisfactory fit for humans in the larger communities of life on Earth.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject
conservation
stewardship
ecosystems
environmental ethics
ecological ethics
ecology
natural law
moral principles