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Caring for nature: what science and economics can't teach us but religion can
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; White Horse Press, publisher
Neither ecologists nor economists can teach us what we most need to know about nature: how to value it. The Hebrew prophets claimed that there can be no intelligent human ecology except as people learn to use land justly and charitably. Lands do not flow with milk and honey for all unless and until justice rolls down like waters. What kind of planet ought we humans wish to have? One we resourcefully manage for our benefits? Or one we hold in loving care? Science and economics can't teach us that; perhaps religion and ethics can.
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Nature, the genesis of value, and human understanding
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; White Horse Press, publisher
Many anthropogenic values are indeed important, but I deny that nature is otherwise value free, and recommend to humans a psychological joining (with) ongoing natural history, since there is value wherever there is positive creativity. Epistemologically, it is impossible for any knower not to be participant in what he or she knows. We will have to use our eyes, ears, noses, hands, minds. What we know will be filtered through our percepts and concepts. But that does not make the discovery of valued features in nature assimilationist or anthropocentric. I defend a rather more critical realism.
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Saving nature, feeding people, and the foundations of ethics
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; White Horse Press, publisher
Rolston replies to Robin Attfield's and Andrew Brennan's criticisms of his claims that sometimes one ought to conserve nature preferentially to caring for the poor. Tiger conservation in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal, does and ought to give tiger conservation priority over some of the desires for development of locally impoverished peoples. Ben Minteer argues that nature conservation ought to be "culturally-occupied"; Rolston argues for respect for intrinsic value in nature.