Previous edition: Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors xi Preface to the Third Edition xiii Source Credits xvi Companion Website xviii Part I Theoretical Background 1 1 Ethical Reasoning 3Michael Boylan 2 What is ‘Nature,’ and Why Should We Care? 15Michael Boylan 3 The Tragedy of the Commons 35Garrett Hardin 4 Worldview Arguments for Environmentalism 48 A. The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology 51The Land Ethic 51Aldo Leopold The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary 58Arne Naess What Social Ecology? 63Murray Bookchin B. Eco-Feminism and Social Justice 75 Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory 75Carolyn Merchant The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism 81Karen J. Warren Patently Wrong: The Commercialization of Life Forms 89Wanda Teays C. Aesthetics 101 Aesthetics and the Value of Nature 101Janna Thompson Worldview and the Value-Duty Link to Environmental Ethics 114Michael Boylan 5 Anthropocentric Versus Biocentric Justifications 130 A. Anthropocentric Justifications 133 Human Rights and Future Generations 133Alan Gewirth Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism 137Onora O’Neill B. Biocentric Justifications 151 Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World 151Holmes Rolston III Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics 169Paul W. Taylor C. Searching the Middle 180 Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics 180James P. Sterba On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics 194Brian K. Steverson Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to Steverson 205James P. Sterba Part II Applied Environmental Problems 211 6 Pollution and Climate Change 213 A. Air and Water Pollution 215 Blue Water 215Michael Boylan Polluting and Unpolluting 228Benjamin Hale Moral Valuation of Environmental Goods 243Mark A. Seabright B. Climate Change 256 Does a Failure in Global Leadership Mean it’s All Over? Climate, Population, and Progress 256Ruth Irwin Collective Responsibility and Climate Change 271Seumas Miller 7 Animal Rights 283 All Animals are Equal 285Peter Singer The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights 300Tom Regan A Critique of Regan’s Animal Rights Theory 309Mary Anne Warren Mary Anne Warren and “Duties to Animals” 317Michael Boylan Against Zoos 322Dale Jamieson 8 Sustainability 332 A. Sustainability: What it is and How it Works 334 Defining Sustainability Ethic 334Randall Curren A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption 349Stephen M. Gardiner Sustainability and Adaptation: Environmental Values and the Future 362Bryan G. Norton B. Sustainability and Development 375 ‘Sustainable Development’: Is it a Useful Concept? 375Wilfred Beckerman On Wilfred Beckerman’s Critique of Sustainable Development 391Herman E. Daly Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change 398Steve Vanderheiden 9 Public Policy, Activism, and Technology: The Cold and Tragic Logic of Climate Change Denial 414Michael Goldsby The A, B, Cs of Social Activism: My Journey 423Barbara Wien International Public Policy on Environmental Regulation 435Carl Joachim Kock What About the Coal Miners? Addressing the Downside of Effective Environmental Policies 450Frederick Bird Electricity 461Geert Demuijnck Technology and the Environment: From Bones to Markets 471David E. McClean Rising Above the Rising Seas 486Avery Kolers

"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 be achievable for poorer countries. Methods of measurement were agreed upon and finally there were new agencies created under the auspices of the United Nations to help administer and monitor these goals"-- Provided by publisher.

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