>Can anyone on the list supply me with some published critiques of
>utilitarian ethics as a basis for environmental ethics. I'm pretty sure
>Eugene Hargrove and others have done some work on this, but the references
>to not come to mind this morning. I have a student using cost/benefit
>analysis on prescribed burns and he wants to use utilitarian theory as the
>analytical tool. He is up on the basics, but needs some critiques for this
>methods section. Any help will be appreciated.
>
>Steven Bissell
>http://www.du.edu/~sbissell
> What we lost with that wild, primal existence
>was a way of being for which the era of
>agriculture and civilization lacks counterpoise.
>Human life is the poorer for it.
> Paul Shepard
Sagoff's *Economy of the Earth* comes to mind.
jt
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