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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author, Cambridge University Press, publisher
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
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Summary: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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