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Engineers, butterflies, worldviews

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author
dc.contributor.authorNational Association of Environmental Professionals, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:44:17Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:44:17Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.description.abstractAn adequate ethic for the preservation of species requires an unprecedented mixing of biological science and ethics. Duties to other humans concerning species are insufficient. Humans can also have duties to species as historically persisting forms of life. Engineers have a tendency to think of wild nature as undeveloped, raw, even waste. To the contrary, natural systems, characterized by speciation, are engineering projects worthy of admiring respect--in the sense that they represent inventive, ingenious, trial and error solutions to problems in survival.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, Engineers, Butterflies, Worldviews, Environmental Professional 9 (1987): 295-301.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/39001
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights©1987 National Association of Environmental Professionals.
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dc.subjectenvironmental policy
dc.subjectecosystems
dc.subjectbutterflies
dc.subjectengineering
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectnatural history
dc.titleEngineers, butterflies, worldviews
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