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Endangered species and biodiversity (Encyclopedia of Bioethics)

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorSimon and Schuster, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T18:17:29Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T18:17:29Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.descriptionWas republished with title: Endangered Species and Biodiversity: Ethical Issues, pages 748-752, volume 2, in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 3rd ed. Stephen G. Post, Editor-in-Chief (New York: Macmillan Reference/Thomson Gale, 2004).
dc.description.abstractReliable estimates are that about 20 percent of Earth's species may be lost within a few decades, about evenly distributed through major groups of plants and animals. The United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro launched the Convention on Biological Diversity. The U.S. Congress has sought to protect species through the Endangered Species Act. Almost all inhabited lands are impoverished of their native fauna and flora. On an anthropocentric account, the duties involved are to persons; there are no duties to endangered species, though duties may concern species. There is something morally naive, about living in a reference frame where one species values everything else relative to its utility. Biodiversity is the common heritage of humankind, all nations share duties to protect it.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-, Endangered Species and Biodiversity, volume 2, pages 671-75, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Edition, Warren T. Reich, ed. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, Simon and Schuster, 1995).
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/233922
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectendangered species
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectConvention on Biological Diversity
dc.subjectEndangered Species Act
dc.subjectanthropocentrism
dc.subjectduties to persons
dc.subjectduties concerning species
dc.subjectduties to species
dc.subjectvalues
dc.subjectcommon heritage of humankind
dc.titleEndangered species and biodiversity (Encyclopedia of Bioethics)
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