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Environmental ethics and environmental anthropology
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Routledge, Earthscan, publisher
Is there a particular angle that environmental anthropology offers environmental ethics? Local peoples find that both their natural and their social systems are jeopardized by global forces, requiring concerns for environmental justice. They are challenged to re-interpret outdated customs. Further, the encounter with these premodern systems may expose the metaphysics that drives modern science, epitomized in plans to re-engineer the Earth in an Anthropocene Epoch. Traditional views can serve as a catalyst. Somewhat to our surprise, we may conclude that our science-based, consumer driven, ever more exploitative cultures also need a revised environmental ethics.
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Environmental ethics for tomorrow: sustaining the biosphere
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Routledge, Earthscan, publisher
Sustainability is a big umbrella under which different objectives can be found, sometimes complementary but often conflicting. Do we envision sustainable development? Economic and/or of other kinds? Do we envision sustainable growth? Are there limits to growth? Might sustainability sometimes require degrowth? Do we envision sustainable opportunity? Recently, goals of sustainability have embraced the Anthropocene Epoch, with humans increasingly dominating and engineering their world. Unless humans seek their destiny entwined with sustaining their biosphere, there is no long term future for life, humans included.
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Sustainable development vs. sustainable biosphere
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Routledge, Earthscan, publisher
In sustainability debates, there are two poles, complements yet opposites. Economy can be prioritized, with the environment contributory to economics at the center. This is sustainable development, an approach widely advocated by the United Nations. At the other pole, a sustainable biosphere model demands a baseline quality of environment. The economy must be worked out within such quality of life in a quality environment. This is advocated by the Ecological Society of America. People and their Earth have entwined destinies; that past truth continues in the present and will remain a pivotal concern in the new millennium. What we most ought to develop and sustain is a sense of respect for this wonderland planet.