Environmental ethics on Antarctic ice

• Main Author: Rolston, Holmes, 1932-
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Colorado State University. Libraries 2007
• Subjects: wilderness; environmental ethics; commentary; Wilderness Act; Lake Vostok; Antarctica; South Pole; Antarctic; Vostok Lake; Antarc*; Polar Record; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37106

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...