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The preservation of natural value in the solar system

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorSierra Club Books, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:31:06Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:31:06Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 180-182).
dc.descriptionOriginally presented at the conference on Environmental Ethics and the Solar System, June 5-8, 1985, University of Georgia, Athens, sponsored by EVIST, National Science Foundation, and the Planetary Society.
dc.description.abstractEarth is, by one account, an accident, of great value in contrast with valueless astronomical worlds. The universe is, by another account, fine tuned with anthropic features that anticipate life and mind on Earth. Projective nature, a third model, interprets nature as an inventive system, driving the spontaneous appearance of diversity, order, and value. If so, we ought to preserve in solarplanetary nature: (1) places spontaneously worthy of proper names, (2) places of exotic extremes, (3) of historical interest, (4) of creative potential, (5) with aesthetic properties, and (6) of transformative value.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, The Preservation of Natural Value in the Solar System, Hargrove, Eugene C., ed., Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System, 140-182. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1986.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37453
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights©1986 Sierra Club Books.
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dc.subjectaccidental nature
dc.subjectanthropic nature
dc.subjectsolar-planetary nature
dc.subjectpreserving nature
dc.subjectcreativity
dc.subjectecosystems
dc.subjectuniverse
dc.subject.lcshEarth
dc.titleThe preservation of natural value in the solar system
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