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"In 2007 when I was a senior research fellow at The Center for American Progress, a progressive policy think tank in Washington, D.C., I spent some time on the Environmental Policy Team. This team had as it's goal the creation of various papers that would be listed on the Center's website and distributed to appropriate committees in Congress to influence public policy. At the time it did seem like the country and the world was on the way to combatting the causes of global warming: CO2 and other chemical emissions that were creating a "greenhouse" effect that was moving us to climate disaster. In 2009 there was the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in which plans were laid for creating a cooperative international structure for implementing some of the policy recommendations of the Kyoto Protocol (1997). Progress was made to identify options for various countries to play their part in this project (the details to be negotiated later) and a goal was set to respond to climate change in the short and long term. To this end, a "red line" was established to avoid allowing the average global temperature to rise 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Procedurally, developed countries like the United States promised certain levels of funding so that the goals might
In: New York Academy of Sciences Series
Intro -- Environmental Ethics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Source Credits -- Part I Theoretical Background -- 1 Ethical Reasoning -- Case 1: Social/Political Ethics -- Case 2: Environmental Ethics -- 2 The Self in Context A Grounding for Environmentalism : A Grounding For Environmentalism -- Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint -- 3 Worldview Arguments for Environmentalism -- A. The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology -- The Land Ethic -- The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary -- What Is Social Ecology? -- B. Eco-Feminism and Social Justice -- Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory -- The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism -- Patently Wrong: The Commercialization of Life Forms -- C. Aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Value of Nature -- Worldview and the Value-Duty Link to Environmental Ethics -- Evaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts -- 4 Anthropocentric versus Biocentric Justifications -- A. Anthropocentric Justifications -- Human Rights and Future Generations -- Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism -- B. Biocentric Justifications -- Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World -- Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics -- C. Searching the Middle -- Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics -- On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics -- Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson -- Evaluating a Case Study: Assessing Embedded Levels -- Part II Applied Environmental Problems -- 5 Pollution and Climate Change -- A. Air and Water Pollution -- Blue Water -- Polluting and Unpolluting -- Moral Valuation of Environmental Goods -- B. Climate Change.
The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems. Through a mix of classic and new essays, it discusses applied issues such as pollution, climate change, animal rights, biodiversity, and sustainability. Roughly half of the selections are original essays new to this edition. Accessible introduction for beginners, including important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for the volumeRoughly half of the selections are original essays new to t
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