A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth - Softcover

Rolston Iii, Holmes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415884845 ISBN 13: 9780415884846

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it.

A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment. Rolston, an early and leading pioneer in studying the moral relationship between humans and the earth, surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics. This book, however, is not simply a judicious overview. Instead, it offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts and draws on a lifetime of research and experience to suggest an outlook for the future. As a result, this focused, forward-looking analysis will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics, and will teach its readers to be responsible global citizens, and residents of their landscape, helping ensure that the future we have will be the one we wish for.

About this title

About the Author

Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415884845
• ISBN 13: 9780415884846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256