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Environmental ethics on Antarctic ice

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2000

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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Cambridge University Press, publisher

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An environmental philosopher gets disoriented in Antarctica, an uninhabited continent, wilderness in deep freeze. Antarctica is peripheral to the main focus of environmental ethics, sustaining life on Earth. Yet Antarctica could set the pace for thinking about the common heritage of humankind. We must stay busy at work on the other six continents, but we ought to set this seventh continent aside. Don't nationalize it. Don't internationalize it. Naturalize it.

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wilderness
Antarctica
environmental ethics
South Pole
commentary
Wilderness Act
Lake Vostok

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