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Challenges in environmental ethics
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Prentice-Hall, publisher
Environmental ethics is an invitation to moral development. Respect for human life is only a subset of respect for all life. What ethics is about is seeing outside your own sector of self-interest, of class interest. A comprehensive ethic will find values in and duties to the natural world. The vitality of ethics depends on our knowing what is really vital, and there will be found the intersection of value and duty. An ecological conscience requires an unprecedented mix of science and conscience, of biology and ethics.
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Feeding people versus saving nature?
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1996) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Prentice-Hall, publisher
Ought one to feed people rather than save nature? People value many worthwhile things over feeding the hungry; they post national boundaries against the poor; there is unjust distribution of wealth; escalating birthrates offset gains in alleviating poverty; there is low productivity on domesticated lands; sacrificed wildlands are often low in productivity; and significant natural values may be at stake. Sometimes, one ought to save nature.