Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorMacmillan Reference USA, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032015Rolston, Holmes, III, Ecology, Holbrook, J. Britt and Carl Mitcham, eds., Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 27-31. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, Cengage Learning, 2015.http://hdl.handle.net/10217/86381Includes bibliographical references (page 31).Article also appeared in previous edition: Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics (Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, ©2005).Ecology is the logic of living creatures in their homes. Ecology mixes with ethics, an ecological (or environmental) ethics urging that humans ought to find a lifestyle more harmonious with nature. Humans have always had to rest their cultures on a natural life support system. Environmental engineers may now claim that the principal novelty of the new millennium is that Earth will be a managed planet in an Anthropocene epoch. Such claims bring increasing concern how far nature can and ought to be transformed into humanized nature. Thinking of humans as fitting themselves into a sustainable biosphere is a better logic of being at home on Earth.born digitalchapters (layout features)eng©2015 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permisssion: http://www.cengage.com/permissions/.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.environmental scienceecologyAnthropocene epochecosystemsenvironmental ethicsconservationText