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Challenges in environmental ethics: Richard J. Burke Lecture

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Challenges in environmental ethics, philosophically and practically, include hunting, Colorado hunters and bear hunters, saving whales in Alaska, saving a drowning bison in Yellowstone, mercy-killing an elephant calf, tree spiking, shooting goats on San Clemente Island, cutting old growth forests, Yellowstone fires, and saving ecosystems and the biosphere planet Earth. Interaction with students and the audience.

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Lecture given as part of the Richard J. Burke Lecture series held in Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan on March 14, 2006.
Videotaping by Oakland University Media on behalf of Holmes Rolston.
To request a transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.

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hunting

rescuing wild animals

mercy-killing wild animals

tree-spiking old growth

saving endangered species

wildfires

conserving ecosystems

sustainable biosphere

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