Steve B. wrote:
>My interest in this is that if ecosystems are not "real," then how do we
>formulate a robust ethic to protect them.
This I take it was the point of Cahen's 1988 article in _Environmental
Ethics_, "Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems" and a point only
belatedly acknowledged by other environmental ethicists--e.g. by Callicott
in his 1996 revision of Leopold's ethic. Good question, sb.
Jim
Cahen, Harley. "Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems."
Environmental Ethics 10 (1988): 195-216.
Callicott, J. Baird. "Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine
Leopold's Land Ethic?" Environmental Ethics 18, 4 (1996): 353-72.
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