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Rights and responsibilities on the home planet
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1993
In this paper, "nature" refers to natural forces operating independently of deliberate human activity, that is, spontaneous or wild nature. Human cultural processes interrupt such natural forces. Little pristine nature ...
Saving creation: faith shaping environmental policy
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:2010
Religious faith can make a unique contribution to environmental policy. Typically, legislators might expect to formulate a science-based environmental policy. But scientific reasoning is able to offer only partial and ...
Earth ethics: a challenge to liberal education
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1996
The home planet is in crisis. The two great marvels of our planet are life and mind, both among the rarest things in the universe, unknown elsewhere. Diverse combinations of nature and culture worked well enough over ...
Environmental ethics in Antarctica
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:2002
The concerns of environmental ethics on other continents fail in Antarctica, which is without sustainable development, or ecosystems for a "land ethic," or even familiar terrestrial fauna and flora. An Antarctic regime, ...
Is there an ecological ethic?
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1975
The environment is on the world agenda, also on the ethical frontier, for the foreseeable future. Environmental ethics is about saving things past, still present. Environmental ethics is equally about future nature, without ...
Community: ecological and ecumenical
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1973
The era of ecology brings a vision of one world environmentally. The ecumenical movement hopes for a community and dialogue of faiths. Both have a common etymological root in the Greek word "oikos," household. These two ...
Moral case for saving species, The
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1998
Thirteen philosophers explain why society should give high priority to the Endangered Species Act. Several billion years worth of creative toil, several million species of teeming life, have been handed over to the care ...
Environmental protection and an equitable international order: ethics after the Earth Summit
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1995-10
The UNCED Earth Summit established two new principles of international justice: an equitable international order and protection of the environment. UNCED was a significant symbol, a morality play about environment and ...
Respect for life: can Zen Buddhism help in forming an environmental ethic?
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:1989
Zen Buddhism has an enviable respect for life. Buddhism promises to chasten human desires and thirsts, to fit humans into their sources, their surrounding world. But there is a series of challenges to Zen Buddhism. Compassion ...
Natural and unnatural; wild and cultural
Author(s):Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Date:2001
Yellowstone's mission is clarified by analysis of the "natural" and the "unnatural." "Wild nature" denotes, outside culture, evolutionary and ecological natural history present on the landscape, jeopardized by numerous ...