The preservation of natural value in the solar system
dc.contributor.author | Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author | |
dc.contributor.author | Sierra Club Books, publisher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T04:31:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T04:31:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1986 | |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-182). | |
dc.description | Originally presented at the conference on Environmental Ethics and the Solar System, June 5-8, 1985, University of Georgia, Athens, sponsored by EVIST, National Science Foundation, and the Planetary Society. | |
dc.description.abstract | Earth is, by one account, an accident, of great value in contrast with valueless astronomical worlds. The universe is, by another account, fine tuned with anthropic features that anticipate life and mind on Earth. Projective nature, a third model, interprets nature as an inventive system, driving the spontaneous appearance of diversity, order, and value. If so, we ought to preserve in solarplanetary nature: (1) places spontaneously worthy of proper names, (2) places of exotic extremes, (3) of historical interest, (4) of creative potential, (5) with aesthetic properties, and (6) of transformative value. | |
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Rolston, Holmes, III, The Preservation of Natural Value in the Solar System, Hargrove, Eugene C., ed., Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System, 140-182. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1986. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37453 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Environmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles | |
dc.rights | ©1986 Sierra Club Books. | |
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dc.subject | space | |
dc.subject | accidental nature | |
dc.subject | anthropic nature | |
dc.subject | solar-planetary nature | |
dc.subject | preserving nature | |
dc.subject | creativity | |
dc.subject | ecosystems | |
dc.subject | universe | |
dc.subject | Earth | |
dc.title | The preservation of natural value in the solar system | |
dc.type | Text | |
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