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Respect for life: counting what Singer finds of no account
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Wiley-Blackwell, publisher
Though to be commended for his concern for animals, Peter Singer has an inadequate environmental ethic. Beyond the higher animals, Singer insists, "there is nothing to be taken into account." In fact, most of the biological world has yet to be taken into account: lower animals, insects, microbes, plants, species, ecosystems and their processes, and the global system of life on Earth. A deeper respect for life must value more directly all living things and the generative processes that sustain life at all its levels, from the genetic to the global.
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Species, the value of
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Wiley-Blackwell, publisher
Humans value wild species finding instrumental uses for them and products derived from them. Wild species have important roles in ecosystems and must be conserved in habitats in which they are adapted fits. Species are also good in themselves, good in their own right. Often there is a "win-win" result from biodiversity, benefits simultaneously for humans and for flourishing species. But often there are tradeoffs, bringing moral assessments of appropriate concern for species. The speciation process and its species products have persisted several billion years. Humans now jeopardize this valuable evolutionary history, and ought not to shut down the life stream, the most destructive event possible.
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Why study environmental ethics?
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Wiley-Blackwell, publisher
Study environmental ethics to figure out who you are, where you are, and what you ought to do. "The unexamined life is not worth living." But Socrates avoided nature, thinking it profitless. The country places and trees won't teach me anything. Socrates was wrong. I found that out in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Life in an unexamined world is not worthy living either. Become a three-dimensional person. One needs experience of the urban, and the rural, and the wild. You don't want to live a denatured life. Study environmental ethics to get put in your place.