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Provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental philosophy and ethics
Mitigating the effects of climate change will require global cooperation and lasting commitment. Of the many disciplines addressing the ecological crisis, philosophy is perhaps best suited to develop the conceptual foundations of a viable and sustainable environmental ethic. This is Environmental Ethics provides an expansive overview of the key theories underpinning contemporary discussions of our moral responsibilities to non-human nature and living creatures.
Adopting a critical approach, author Wendy Lynne Lee closely examines major moral theories to discern which ethic provides the compass needed to navigate the social, political, and economic challenges of potentially catastrophic environmental transformation, not only, but especially the climate crisis. Lee argues that the ethic ultimately adopted must make the welfare of non-human animals and plant life a priority in our moral decision-making, recognizing that ecological conditions form the existential conditions of all life on the planet. Throughout the text, detailed yet accessible chapters demonstrate why philosophy is relevant and useful in the face of an uncertain environmental future.
- Questions which environmental theory might best address the environmental challenges of climate change and the potential for recurring pandemic
- Discusses how inequalities of race, sex, gender, economic status, geography, and species impact our understanding of environmental dilemmas
- Explores the role of moral principles in making decisions to resolve real-world dilemmas
- Incorporates extensive critiques of moral extensionist and ecocentric arguments
- Introduces cutting-edge work done by radical deep green writers, animal rights theorists, eco-phenomenologists, and ecofeminists
This is Environmental Ethics is essential reading for undergraduate students in courses on philosophy, geography, environmental studies, feminist theory, ecology, human and animal rights, and social justice, as well as an excellent graduate-level introduction to the key theories and thinkers of environmental philosophy.
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Reading philosophy can be like trying to ride a bucking broncoyou hold on for dear life while transcendental deduction twists you to one side, causa sui throws you to the other, and a 300word, 300yearold sentence comes down on you like an ironshod hoof the size of a dinner plate. This Is Philosophy is the riding academy that solves these problems. Each book in the series is written by an expert who knows how to gently guide students into the subject regardless of the readers ability or previous level of knowledge. Their readerfriendly prose is designed to help students find their way into the fascinating, challenging ideas that compose philosophy without simply sticking the hapless novice on the back of the bronco, as so many texts do. All the books in the series provide ample pedagogical aids, including links to free online primary sources. When students are ready to take the next step in their philosophical education, This Is Philosophy is right there with them to help them along the way.
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It is customary to thank all of the people, friends, family, and colleagues, whose patience and forbearance make research and writing possible. There are plenty of these folks, and they know who they are. This book, however, requires a different introduction. It began as a meditation on the implications of the climate crisis for environmental ethics. Not because there arent many other issues confronting an ecologically beleaguered planet and its citizens, but because climate change poses an existential crisis for human beings, for communities, and for every living thing with whom we share the earth and its atmosphere. Like so many of its predecessor crisespollution, species extinction, resource exhaustionthe climate crisis is substantially anthropogenic. Human greed, excess, recklessness, and hubris are its causes. Unlike its predecessors, however, the climate crisis has the potential to render life no longer worth the struggle that is living.
Then, two things happened that altered the course of this book. First, and without warning, my daughter, Carley, died. Then the coronavirus pandemic descended and began to devour the world. The first still leaves me speechless. The second must be spoken and theorized. Covid-19 must be understood as the environmental crisis it is at the juncture of human chauvinism, ecological destruction, rapacious capitalism, and ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The pandemic is not, as we might prefer to believe, simply a moment in time; it foreshadows an anguished future we could act to deter through will and foresight; though we havent so far. Of course, its not this simple. Some refuse to wear masks; others risk infection to help us breathe. Some deny the climate crisis; others are forced to flee its consequences. Both the pandemic and the climate crisis evolve in ways we can model, but not really predict. And most of us live somewhere between soldiering on, enculturated cognitive dissonance, outrage, and doing the best we can. The root-message of any ethic is: do better by the other who is you. Pandemic teaches us we cannot resurrect the dead. But while coronavirus will meet its match in a vaccine, for a while, the only armor we have against the climate crisis is thoughtful, deliberate, and collective action driven by the decision to care for others, listen to science, and make a reclamation of humility. The tipping points are right in front of usclimactic, viral, civilizational. We can do better. I would like to say: if only we had the right moral compass. The future will arrive. But its late in the day.
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