Sentences with phrase «environmental ethicist»

«My read on it then was that it bordered on the heretical,» says Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist at Arizona State University.

That paper is by Clive Hamilton, an Australian environmental ethicist who chastised me and others for proposing that a «good» path could be found in this era of human - dominated Earth systems, and Jacques Grinevald, a historian focused on the interface of environment and technology and member of the Anthropocene Working Group.

«The debate in biodiversity conservation between economics and ethics, or between pragmatism and principle, is in many ways a misguided contest, one that assumes that there exists a deep philosophical division between environmental ethics and societal action,» she wrote with her ASU colleague Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist.

It concerns not only an increased extinction threat to re-discovered species, but also the collection of specimens from small populations more generally,» said Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar in ASU's School of Life Sciences.

Rolston is representative of most environmental ethicists in encouraging us to recognize the inherent worth of nature.

Not exact matches

Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic.

So, an applied ethicist needs to know about philosophy, but he or she also needs to know about medicine if they are going into medical ethics, something about environmental science if they are going into environmental ethics, and something about engineering and the way it's practiced if they are going into the ethics of neural engineering.

I asked a few folks about facets of this, among them Peter Singer, the ethicist at Princeton who's written for ages on animal rights and environmental values on a finite planet.

This question divides some ethicists, biologists and animal - welfare groups and wildlife and environmental groups (many of which include large numbers of hunters among their members).

This collaborative approach is a far cry from the warnings of Australian ethicist and geoengineering critic Clive Hamilton, who has argued China's history of weather manipulation, top - down political system and urgent environmental challenges make it a likely contender to use geoengineering technology on its own without sharing its know - how with other countries.