"Moral Pluralism and the Environment"
Economics and contemporary ethical theory must come to terms with the fact that not everything from consumer goods to endangered species can be given a value in order to make them comparable.
Economics and contemporary ethical theory must come to terms with the fact that not everything from consumer goods to endangered species can be given a value in order to make them comparable.
The anthropocentric ethic implicit in all solutions regarding global commons is contrasted with the ecocentric one which may be necessary to preserve the biosphere in the future.
An evolutionary analysis of history suggests that technology and morality can and will respond to a clearly perceived future threat to civilization. But will our response be fast enough?
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.”
Content
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference “Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium,” held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000.
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.
Released almost 30 years later, this documentary examines events surrounding the major industrial accident at the trichlorphen plant ICMESA, near Seveso (“Seveso chemical disaster”).