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In 1974, Baxter published a widely read and influential book on the law and economics of pollution control entitled People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights .
In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resources."
According to Steinbock, the pain of animals is a morally relevant consideration but is not morally decisive. This differs from Peter Singer's view that there is no essential difference between the pain of non-human animals and that of human beings, and also differs from William Baxter's view that animals have no moral consideration on their own whatsoever.
Modern issues within environmental philosophy include but are not restricted to the concerns of environmental activism, questions raised by science and technology, environmental justice, and climate change. These include issues related to the depletion of finite resources and other harmful and permanent effects brought on to the environment by ...
Plant growth on the exterior of a dilapidated wall. Philosophy of ecology is a concept under the philosophy of science, which is a subfield of philosophy.Its main concerns centre on the practice and application of ecology, its moral issues, and the intersectionality between the position of humans and other entities. [1]
Environmental personhood or juridic personhood is a legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person. This assigns to these entities, the rights , protections, privileges, responsibilities and legal liability of a legal personality.
William Baxter (Nova Scotia politician) (1760–1832), physician and politician in Nova Scotia; William Edward Baxter (1825–1890), British politician and traveller; William Duncan Baxter (1868–1960), mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, 1907–1908; William Baxter (Scottish politician) (1911–1979), British Labour Party politician, MP 1959–1974
[3] William D. Grey believes that developing a non-anthropocentric set of values is "a hopeless quest". He seeks an improved "shallow" view. [ 30 ] Deep ecologists point out, however, that "shallow ecology" (resource management conservation) is counter-productive, since it serves mainly to support capitalism, the means through which industrial ...