Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Whither conservation ethics ( callicott)
- Conservation began as a moral movement
- brief history
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- Emerson ( nature can be a temple)
- Too much civilized refinement can overripen the human spirit (Thoreau)
- John Muir
- morally changed campaign for appreciation and preservation of wild nature
- to satisfy our spiritual needs
- aesthetic contemplation
- healing rest/relaxation
- education/recreation
- against destruction for material need
- both muir and thoreau undemocratic
- human satisfaction from nature is morally superior than other needs
- natural areas/species
have intrinsic value
based on religious view
- progressivism
- Gifford Pinchot
- nature is to serve
for the betterment
of the many not
merely a few
- the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time
- multiple use framework
- equity for both present and future generations
- markets rarely take into account externalities
- Resouce Convservation ethic
- characterized by the gospel of efficiency
- moral principles
- just and fair distribution of natural resources
- efficiency- a natural resource should not be wastefully exploited
- 18th-19th century conservation worldview
- Leopold
- nature is
- ecological perspective
- not a collection of externally related useful, useless, and noxious species
- nature is a vast intricately organized
and tightly integrated system of
complex processes in an organized
landscape of soils and waters
- you cannot lift the veil of a biota to distinguish utility
- difficult to determine where utility begins and ends
- conditions by interwoven cooperations and competitions
- we cannot get rid of fauna or
faunal without destructive
ecological chain reactions
- must ensure that natural processes and the integrity of the natural systems must continue
- evolutionary-ecological land ethic
- ensures ecosystems remain stable
- processes and interactions are complex and integrated
- are similar to organisms
- needs all of its organs to survive