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Environmental Ethics Today is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the environment, our species, and species diversity. This wide-ranging introduction to major issues and questions in environmental ethics employs an accessible, journalistic style--featuring current facts, real controversies, individual stories, and a vivid narrative--that engages readers and gives meaning to abstract philosophical concepts. Topics discussed include pollution permits for corporations, medical experimentation on animals, genetic engineering, economic globalization, biodiversity, and much more. Theories and methods such as utilitarianism, contractarianism, and hermeneutics are introduced as needed to help readers understand and attempt to resolve environmental conflicts. The book considers the views of many thinkers including Father Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, J. Baird Callicott, Jane Goodall, Garrett Hardin, David Korten, Aldo Leopold, Arne Naess, Val Plumwood, Daniel Quinn, Tom Regan, Holmes Rolston III, Vandana Shiva, Julian Simon, Peter Singer, and Karen Warren. An exceptional primary text for courses in environmental ethics and environmental values, Environmental Ethics Today is also excellent reading for general courses in moral problems, business ethics, environmental studies, and women's studies.

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One of the most comprehensive, balanced, and thought-provoking treatments of the subject I have ever read. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of material on indigenous peoples and religious perspectives. --Lloyd Burton, University of Colorado at Denver Comprehensive, up-to-date, and useful. --Joel B. Goldstein, University of Texas at Arlington An engaging introduction to salient issues within the environmental movement. With jargon-free prose Professor Wenz challenges students to examine their own beliefs and values, and provides them with the necessary tools. --Thomas D. Kotulak, Indiana University Southeast

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