The Wild and the Wicked
On Nature and Human Nature
A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu.Most of us think that in order to be environmentalists, we have to love nature. Essentially, we should be tree huggers—embracing majestic redwoods, mighty oaks, graceful birches, etc. We ought to eat granola, drive hybrids, cook tofu, and write our appointments in Sierra Club calendars. Nature's splendor, in other words, justifies our protection of it. But, asks Benjamin Hale in this provocative book, what about tsunamis, earthquakes, cancer, bird flu, killer asteroids? They are nature, too.For yea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-03540-8
- EAN: 9780262035408
- Produktnummer: 19814705
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.1 cm x D0.2 cm 604 g
- Abbildungen: 22 figures; 22 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 604
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Benjamin Hale is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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