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

by Holmes Rolston III

Overview

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 to write on the environment and often called the "father of environmental ethics." 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 to suggest an outlook, and even hope, for the future. This forward-looking analysis, focused on the new millennium, will be a necessary complement to 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 to live a "de-natured life on a de-natured planet."

Key Updates in the Second Edition

• Covers the worsening environmental situation due to 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 to 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 to 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 to become a synthetic environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367477974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/12/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He has written seven books. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998, and won the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003. Rolston has spoken as a distinguished lecturer on all seven continents.

Table of Contents

1. The Environmental Turn 2. Humans: People on their Landscapes 3. Animals: Beasts in Flesh and Blood 4. Organisms: Respect for Life 5. Species and Biodiversity: Lifelines in Jeopardy 6. Ecosystems: The Land Ethic 7. Earth: Ethics on the Home Planet

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This is an introduction to environmental ethics that only Holmes Rolston could write- at once gut-wrenchingly direct and poetically-inspired, it will attract new generations to the field that he did so much to create." –Dale Jamieson, New York University

"Holmes Rolston's A New Environmental Ethics is new in the best sense: an honest, fresh appraisal of where we are and where we are heading. It likewise is old in the best sense. There comes a time to reflect on where we have been and why, what we have accomplished, and what we stand for. This is Rolston's time, and his is a voice that will be heard across generations." –David Schmidtz, University of Arizona

"A succinct overview of the field from its most important thinker, this book is the indispensable introduction to environmental ethics." –Willis Jenkins, Yale University

"With characteristic rigor, Rolston proves once again to be a moral explorer par excellence. His new book not only surveys the existing terrain of environmental ethics literature, but it persuasively argues for following a greener, more life-respecting morality; it is an exemplary read for an environmental ethics course."

–Ben Dixon, Stephen F. Austin State University

"I would recommend Rolston’s book for any undergraduate course in environmental ethics, or even for an introductory ethics course with a substantial applied ethical component. The book’s plain language makes it easy to read yet philosophically challenging as only the work of a discipline’s founder could be."

-International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter

"The book's clear writing and relatively brief length should make it an easy read for students . . . . Probably its greatest value is that it is Rolston speaking to anyone who might be wise enough to listen. He covers all the important issues, including the various views of important—sometimes obscure—environmental philosophers; he also discusses US legislation and the state of life on Earth. Summing Up: Highly recommended."

-Choice

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the First Edition:

"This is an introduction to environmental ethics that only Holmes Rolston could write – at once gut-wrenchingly direct and poetically-inspired, it will attract new generations to the field that he did so much to create."
Dale Jamieson, New York University

"A succinct overview of the field from its most important thinker, this book is the indispensable introduction to environmental ethics."
Willis Jenkins, Yale University

"Highly recommended."
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From the Publisher