A new environmental ethics: the next millennium for life on Earth

Abstract

This Second Edition of A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and often moving thoughts from Holmes Rolston III, one of the first and most respected philosophers write on the environment and often called the father of environmental Rolston surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics and offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts. He draws on a lifetime of research and experience suggest an outlook, and even hope, for the future. This forward-looking analysis, focused on the new millennium, will be a necessary complement any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics. The First Edition guaranteed to put you in your place. Beyond that, the Second Edition asks whether you want live a life on a de-natured planet. Key Updates in the Second Edition Covers the worsening environmental situation due actions of the Trump administration, including withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Includes information on legislation in key U.S. states (e.g., California and New York) aimed ameliorate the damage done at the federal level Increases coverage of group knowledge, group agreement and disagreement, and group action in collective environmental ethics, as distinguished from individual knowledge and action Examines the deleterious effects of online consumer behavior Explains how a loss of solidarity among a nation’s citizens and even a larger solidary among humanity leads environmental degradation Offers new analysis of the effects of epistemic bubbles, echo chambers, and fake news on the behavior of voters and consumers Provides an extended critique of the Anthropocene Epoch, and the prospect of geo-engineering Earth become a synthetic environment.