"Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement"
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? What are our responsibilities in a world where the boundaries between nature and culture are no longer clear? How do we visualize and teach the challenges of the future? The articles in this issue of RCC Perspectives reflect upon the ethics, aesthetics, and didactics of an “Age of Humans.”
The aim of this article is to provide an ethical assessment of current events and trends regarding nuclear energy by introducing some thoughts from a Christian, socio-ethical point of view.
Wild Earth 4, no. 1 discusses aquatic ecosystems, vacuuming the Northern Forest, mismanagement in the Southern Appalachians, and lessons from the Vermont wilderness.
Wild Earth 4, no. 2 features Wendell Berry on “A Walk Down Camp Branch,” Howie Wolke’s “Butchering the Big Wild,” and William R. Catton, Jr., on “Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture.”
This issue of Wild Earth celebrates the third year of the Wildlands Project featuring the theme “A Critique and Defense of the Wilderness Idea,” as well as essays on: falcons in urban environments, state complicity in wildlife losses, and common lands recovery.
Wild Earth 6, no. 4 features essays opposing wilderness deconstruction. Gary Snyder writes on nature as a social construction, Dave Foreman contributes a piece on the conservation opposition’s underlying views, and Don Waller discusses the evolution of wilderness concepts.
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
Brian K. Steverson argues against James Sterba’s attempt to show that anthropocentrists and nonanthropocentrists would accept the exact same principles of environmental justice.
Tom Crowards discusses nonuse values as a potentially very important, but controversial, aspect of the economic valuation of the environment, introducing the concept of Safe Minimum Standards.