Lynch, Tony and David Wells. “Non-Anthropocentrism? A Killing Objection.” Environmental Values 7, no. 2 (1998): 131–50. doi:10.3197/096327198129341519.
To take the idea of a non-anthropocentric ethic of nature seriously is to abandon morality itself. The idea of humanity is not an optional extra for moral seriousness. Non-anthropocentric environmental ethicists mistake the kind of value non-human entities may bear. It is not moral value, but aesthetic value.
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