Beyond environmentalism: a philosophy of nature
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| adam_text | Titel: Beyond environmentalism
Autor: Foss, Jeffrey E.
Jahr: 2009
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book 1
1 The Need for a Philosophy of Nature 8
1.1 The Goal of the Book 10
1.2 The Structure of the Book 10
1.3 The Need for Objectivity 11
1.4 The Need for Philosophy 13
1.5 The Rise of Environmentalist!! 15
1.6 Philosophy of Nature as a Path 19
2 Environmentalism s Apocalyptic Assumption 21
2.1 The Environmentalist Worldview 21
2.2 Is There an Environmental Crisis? 30
2.3 Our Emotional Environment 37
3 Environmentalism s Transcendent Objective 41
3.1 The Environmentalist Value System 42
3.2 Environmental Health as a Transcendent Objective 46
3.3 Three Elements of Tragedy 50
4 Environmentalism s Antihuman Bias 57
4.1 Can Nature Do Any Harm? 58
4.2 Environmentalists on Humankind 62
4.3 Is Modern Civilization Bad for Nature? 64
4.4 Environmentalists Personal Values 66
4.5 Environmentalism s Institutional Ethics 70
5 Science, Environmentalism, and Environmental Science 76
5.1 Environmentalism and Science 77
5.2 The Rise of Environmental Science 83
5.3 Environmental Science and Values 89
Vll
viii CONTENTS
6 Pure Environmental Science 91
6.1 The Rise and Fall of Scientific Proof 94
6.2 The Rise of Modeling 95
6.3 Models and Truth 97
6.4 Protecting Science s Value Neutrality 99
6.5 The Value Neutrality of Environmental Science 102
6.6 The Special Challenge Faced by Pure Environmental
Science 106
7 Nature and the Sacred 166
7.1 Nature and Religion 167
7.2 Christianity and the Environmental Crisis 169
7.3 Environmental Science and the Sacred 175
7.4 Beyond Environmental Religiosity 177
7.5 The Naturally Sacred 187
7.6 Is Accepting Responsibility for Nature Sacrilegious? 190
8 Nature and Romance 193
8.1 Environmentalism and Romance 195
8.2 Romance and Science 197
8.3 Romance and Alienation 199
8.4 The Classical Roots of Romanticism 201
8.5 Logical Analysis of Romanticism 211
8.6 The Balance of Nature Is a Romantic Fantasy 215
8.7 The Ecosystem Is a Romantic Fantasy 218
8.8 Our Sense of Alienation from Nature 221
9 Nature and Values 226
9.1 Natural Value 227
9.2 The Value of Life Itself 236
9.3 Are We Alienated From Nature? 238
9.4 Our Separation from—-and Union with—Nature 240
9.5 The Value of Freedom 242
10 Backward or Forward? 248
10.1 Back to Nature: Leopold and Callicott 250
10.2 The Environmentalist s Vilification of Domestic
Animals 253
10.3 The Environmentalist s Vilification of Human
Domesticity 258
10.4 Forward: Accepting Our Responsibility 261
10.5 Forward: Our Unique Abilities 265
CONTENTS ix
11 A Vision of the Future 272
11.1 Our Ongoing Role Reversal with Nature 273
11.2 We Are the Emerging Nervous System of the Planet 274
11.3 The Natural Virtues and Vices of Nervous Systems 277
11.4 When It s Humankind versus Nature 281
11.5 Our Right to Survive 290
11.6 Our Unique Feelings of Kinship with Other Species 293
11.7 A Code 296
Case Studies
1 Is Pollution Getting Worse? (Section 2.2) 30
2 Is the Sixth Great Extinction Real? (Section 2.2) 35
3 Are Eco-Warriors Motivated by Idealism or Attracted to
Violence? (Section 3.2) 48
4 Was the Banning of DDT a Good Thing? (Section 4.5) 71
5 Is Environmental Science Pure or Applied? (Section 5.2) 85
6 Can Environmental Science Tell Us Whether We Should Prevent
the Coming Ice Age? (Section 6.5) 103
7 Should We Wager the Global Economy on the Global Wanning
Theory? (Section 6.6) 110
8 Recycling (Section 7.4) 179
9 Is Environmental Apocalypse a Real Danger? (Section 8.4) 203
10 Is Nature Good? (Section 9.1) 232
11 Should We Try to Take Control of Earth s Temperature?
(Section 10.4) 262
12 Should We Accept Global Warming on the Precautionary
Principle? (Section 10.5) 268
13 What Is the Ideal Human Population? (Section 11.4) 286
Feature Boxes
Nature Is Unpredictably Wiggly (Section 2.1) 25
The Fact-Value Dichotomy (Section 3.1) 44
Eco-Sabotage (Section 3.3) 52
The Logic of Carbon Offsets (Section 4.4) 67
The Social Subtext of Science (Section 5.1) 78
Science and Social Enlightenment (Section 5.1) 82
Lorenz, Butterflies, and Chaos (Section 6.6) 108
How Much Is the Climate Warming? (Case Study 7, Section 6.6) 121
Parameterization Parable (Case Study 7, Section 6.6) 132
The Urban Heat Island Effect and Global Temperature (Case Study 7,
Section 6.6) 140
The Gaia Hypothesis (Section 7.2) 171
Type Truth (Section 7.5) 188
X CONTENTS
Romance and Global Wanning (Section 8.5) 211
Pastoralism (Section 8.8) 223
Nature and Intrinsic Value (Section 9.1) 228
Aldo Leopold on the Freedom of Animals, Wild or Otherwise
(Section 10.2) 256
Do Environmentalists Remember Rightly? (Section 10.3) 260
The Emerging Global Carbon Regime (Section 11.5) 291
References 301
Index 317
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