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Ecology

Date

2005

Authors

Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Macmillan Reference USA, Thomson/Gale, publisher

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Ecology is the logic of living creatures in their homes. Ecology mixes with ethics, an ecological (or environmental) ethics urging that humans ought to find a lifestyle more harmonious with nature. Humans have always had to rest their cultures on a natural life support system. Environmental engineers may now claim that the principal novelty of the new millennium is that Earth will be a managed planet. Such claims bring increasing concern how far nature can and ought be transformed into humanized nature. Thinking of humans as fitting themselves into a sustainable biosphere is a better logic of being at home on Earth.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 583).

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environmental science
environmental ethics
ecology
ecosystems
conservation

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