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13Rousseau, Cronon, and the Wilderness IdeaEnvironmental Ethics 24 (2): 169-188. 2002.William Cronon has recently argued that the current debate concerning justifications for protecting wilderness relies upon conceptions of natural value premised upon a nature/society dualism that originated in older nature writing but which still animates contemporary thinking. This dualism, he argues, prevents adequate realization of the human and social places in nature, and is ultimately counterproductiveto the task of articulating the proper relationship between humans and the natural world.…Read more
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34Justice in the GreenhouseSocial Philosophy Today 19 (89): 89-101. 2003.The current debate surrounding the implementation of the Kyoto Treaty raises several issues that ought to be of interest to social and political philosophers. Proponents and critics alike have invoked ideas of fairness in justification of their positions. The two distinct conceptions of fairness that are involved in this debate—one of fair shares, and another of fair burdens—helpfully illuminate the proper role of fairness in designing an equitable and effective global climate regime. In this pa…Read more
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48Climate Justice Beyond International Burden SharingMidwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 27-42. 2016.
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4Two Shades of Green: Food and Environmental SustainabilityEnvironmental Ethics 28 (2): 129-145. 2006.The politics of food illustrates an enduring tension within environmental ethics and green political theory: the oft-assumed division between those thinkers for whom humanitarian goals remain prominent but who situate them within a normative framework stressing environmental sustainability and those thinkers who reject any distinctively humanitarian interests as untenably anthropocentric. In posing the problem as a moral dilemma between feeding people and saving nature, light and dark green valu…Read more
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245Climate Change and the Challenge of Moral ResponsibilityJournal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999): 85-92. 2007.The phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change—in which weather patterns and attendant ecological disruption result from increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere through human activities—challenges several conventional assumptions regarding moral responsibility. Multifarious individual acts and choices contribute (often imperceptibly) to the causal chain that is expected to produce profound and lasting harm unless significant mitigation efforts begin soon. Attri…Read more
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University of Colorado, BoulderRegular Faculty
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |