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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 .
Environmental ethics exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography. There are many ethical decisions that human beings make with respect to the environment.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette wrote that Taylor broke new grounds in environmental ethics with his concepts of biocentric outlook and inherent worth and suggested that he developed "the most philosophically sophisticated theory of environmental ethics that has yet appeared". However, she noted various flaws with his theory.
protest in San Francisco. Jane Kirtley, a professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota,said that,although the jailing of American journalists was becoming more frequent, Mr. Wolf was the first American blogger she knew of to be imprisoned by federal authorities.5 August 2: “GOVERNMENT WINS ACCESS TO RE-
William Baxter (scholar) (1650–1723), Welsh scholar; William Baxter (Oxford Botanic Garden curator) (1787–1871), Scots botanist, author of British Phaenogamous Botany; William Baxter (botanist) (1787–c. 1836), English botanist who collected in Australia; William Baxter (law professor) (1929–1998), American law professor
Environmental virtue ethicists take inspiration from a variety of schools of virtue ethics and from diverse backgrounds in environmental ethics. Nevertheless, there are three general approaches to identifying virtues and vices within EVE. First, the "virtue theory approach," which attempts to build an environmental virtue ethics from the ground up.
The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book, Wadsworth Publishing Company. An International Thomson Publishing Company; Vogel, Steven, 1999. Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature, Environmental Ethics 24 (1):23-39; Weston, 1999. An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
In 1701 appeared Baxter's Horace, which J. M. Gesner made the basis of his edition, published in 1752 and also in 1772. Baxter's edition was republished in 1725 and in 1798. Robert Lowth pronounced it 'the best edition of Horace ever yet delivered to the world.' In 1788 Zeunius incorporated in an edition of Horace all Baxter's and Gesner's notes.