Thinking like a planet : the land ethic and the earth ethic / J. Baird Callicott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callicott, J. Baird, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.

Climatic changes.

Environmental ethics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Other Title:

Thinking Like a Planet

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little hope that anything will be done inthe face of its "perfect moral storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself, and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory byexploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the environmental movement gathered strength.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-19-932490-5