"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
Humans must define and carry out a way of life so that each generation can fulfill and forward their obligation to their children while enjoying a favourable way of life themselves.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
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?
Wild Earth 4, no. 1 discusses aquatic ecosystems, vacuuming the Northern Forest, mismanagement in the Southern Appalachians, and lessons from the Vermont wilderness.
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.
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.
Michael Mason argues that Habermasian moral theory reveals a key tension between, on the one hand, an ethical commitment to wilderness preservation informed by deep ecological and bioregional principles that is oriented to a naturalistic value order and, on the other, the procedural norms of democratic participation.