Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System, Eugene C. Hargrove. 1987. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA. 288 pages. Index. ISBN: 0-87156-768-7. $25.00

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-342
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Sierra Club ◽  
Spaceship Earth

Awe and Humility: Intrinsic Value in Nature. Beyond an Earthbound Environmental Ethics

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keekok Lee
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Intrinsic Value

This paper will argue for a conception of intrinsic value which, it is hoped, will do justice to the following issues:(1) that Nature need not and should not be understood to refer only to what exists on this planet, Earth;(2) that an environmental ethics informed by features unique to Earth may be misleading and prove inadequate as technology increasingly threatens to invade and colonize other planets in the solar system;(3) that a comprehensive environmental ethics must encompass not only our attitude to Earth, but to other planets as well—in other words, it must not simply be an Earthbound but virtually an astronomically bounded ethics.

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