Environmental ethics on Antarctic ice

An environmental philosopher gets disoriented in Antarctica, an uninhabited continent, wilderness in deep freeze. Antarctica is peripheral to the main focus of environmental ethics, sustaining life on Earth. Yet Antarctica could set the pace for thinking about the common heritage of humankind. We mu...

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Main Author: Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Colorado State University. Libraries 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37106
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spelling ftcolostateunidc:oai:mountainscholar.org:10217/37106 2023-05-15T13:34:21+02:00 Environmental ethics on Antarctic ice Rolston, Holmes, 1932- Antarctica South Pole Vostok, Lake (Antarctica) 2007-01-03T04:16:20Z born digital articles application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37106 English eng eng Colorado State University. Libraries Cambridge University Press Environmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles - Rolston (Holmes) Collection Rolston, Holmes, III, Environmental Ethics on Antarctic Ice, Polar Record 36, no. 199 (October 2000): 289-290. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37106 ©2000 Cambridge University Press wilderness environmental ethics commentary Wilderness Act Lake Vostok Antarctica South Pole Text 2007 ftcolostateunidc 2021-07-14T20:58:16Z An environmental philosopher gets disoriented in Antarctica, an uninhabited continent, wilderness in deep freeze. Antarctica is peripheral to the main focus of environmental ethics, sustaining life on Earth. Yet Antarctica could set the pace for thinking about the common heritage of humankind. We must stay busy at work on the other six continents, but we ought to set this seventh continent aside. Don't nationalize it. Don't internationalize it. Naturalize it. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Record South pole South pole Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University) Antarctic South Pole Lake Vostok ENVELOPE(106.000,106.000,-77.500,-77.500) Vostok Lake ENVELOPE(104.750,104.750,-77.392,-77.392)
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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
Environmental ethics on Antarctic ice
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description An environmental philosopher gets disoriented in Antarctica, an uninhabited continent, wilderness in deep freeze. Antarctica is peripheral to the main focus of environmental ethics, sustaining life on Earth. Yet Antarctica could set the pace for thinking about the common heritage of humankind. We must stay busy at work on the other six continents, but we ought to set this seventh continent aside. Don't nationalize it. Don't internationalize it. Naturalize it.
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Rolston, Holmes, III, Environmental Ethics on Antarctic Ice, Polar Record 36, no. 199 (October 2000): 289-290.
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37106
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