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12ConsumptionIn Dale Jamieson (ed.), A Companion to Environmental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.This chapter contains sections titled: Two concepts of consumption Historical background Why do we consume so much? How much do we need to consume? Consumption and the environment Are resources limited? The difference between nature and the environment.
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11Do We Need a Land Use Ethic?Environmental Ethics 3 (4): 293-308. 1981.In this paper I criticize what many economists recommend: namely, that land use regulations should simulate what markets would do were all resources fully owned and freely exchanged. I argue that this “efficiency” approach, even if balanced with equity considerations, will result in commercial sprawl, an environment that consumers pay for, but one that appalls ethical judgment and aesthetic taste. I showthat economic strategies intended to avoid this result are inadequate, and conclude that ethi…Read more
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11Is Big Beautiful?Journal of Applied Philosophy 1 (2): 269-280. 1984.ABSTRACT In this essay, I argue that large‐scale technologies may be more threatening to open democratic institutions than to ecological systems. I describe the threat in terms of an alliance between bureacrats and entrepreneurs to govern society according to their own methods, e.g., cost‐benefit analysis, and thus to usurp the rule of law. In America, though not in England, blue‐collar and environmentalist constituencies have on occasion beaten back this threat, a triumph of democracy. I use ‘g…Read more
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10What Deserves Appreciation?Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (review)Hastings Center Report 19 (4): 39-40. 2012.Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. By Holmes Rolston, III.
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10Four Dogmas of Environmental EconomicsEnvironmental Values 3 (4). 1994.Four dogmas have shaped modern neoclassical economics. The first proposes that markets may fail to allocate resources efficiently, that is, to those willing to pay the most for them. The second asserts that choices, particularly within markets, reveal preferences. The third is the assumption that people always make the choices they expect will benefit them or enhance their welfare. The fourth dogma holds that perfectly competitive markets will allocate resources to their most beneficial uses. Th…Read more
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9Regulatory Review and Cost-Benefit AnalysisPhilosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 29 (3/4): 21. 2009.President Obamas recent memorandum calling for an overhaul of White House regulatory policies provides an opportunity to revisit our reliance on cost-benefit analysis as a fundamental regulatoryprinciple.
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9Genetic engineering and the concept of the naturalIn , Nabc. 2001.Many consumers view genetically engineered foods with suspicion partly because the food industry has taught them to do so. Consumers learn from advertisements and labels that the foods they buy are all natural only to realize that that is not the case. The food industry wishes to embrace the efficiencies offered by advances in genetic engineering, but this technology belies the image of nature to which the food industry constantly and conspicuously appeals. Consumers who believe genetically modi…Read more
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8Environmental BedfellowsHastings Center Report 23 (2): 42-43. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: Toward Unity among Environmentalists. By Bryan G. Norton.
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8Toward Unity among EnvironmentalistsHastings Center Report 23 (2): 42. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: Toward Unity among Environmentalists. By Bryan G. Norton.
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5On the value of endangered and other speciesEnvironmental Management 20 (6): 897-911. 1996.This paper describes two frameworks—utilitarian and Kantian—society uses to make decisions concerning environmental management and, in particular, species protection. The utilitarian framework emphasizes the consequences of choices for prior preferences. A perfectly competitive market, on this model, correctly values environmental resources. The Kantian approach identifies rules appropriate to recognized situations given the identity of the decision maker. It relies on democratic political proce…Read more
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4Afterwords Criticism and Countertheses: "He Had A Hat"Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (2): 191-191. 1985.
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4Science Policy, Ethics and Economic Methodology (review)Philosophical Review 95 (4): 633-636. 1986.
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4Environmentalism: death and resurrectionPhilosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 27 (3-4): 2-10. 2007._Gale_ Academic OneFile includes Environmentalism: death and resurrection by Mark Sagoff. Read the beginning or sign in for the full text.
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3Settling America or the Concept of Place in Environmental EthicsJournal of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Law 12 349. 1992.
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2Are Genes Inventions? An Ethical Analysis of Gene PatentsIn Justine Burley & John Harris (eds.), A Companion to Genethics, Blackwell. 2004.The prelims comprise: Introduction Patent Policy prior to the 1980s The Landmark Chakrabarty Decision Public Debate over Chakrabarty The Joint Appeal Inventions or Objects of Nature? Conclusion Notes.
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1Animal liberation and environmental ethics: Bad marriage, quick divorceOsgoode Hall Law Journal 22 297-307. 1984.
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Ethics, Ecology, and the Environment: Integrating Science and LawTennessee Law Review 56 77-229. 1988.
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Do we consume too much?In David M. Kaplan (ed.), Philosophy, technology, and the environment, The Mit Press. 2017.
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