Review
1. INTRODUCTION. Clare Palmer: A Bibliographic Essay on Environmental Ethics. Thomas E. Hill, Jr.: Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments. Henry Shue: Global Environment and International Inequality. 2. ANIMAL RIGHTS. Immanuel Kant: Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth. Holly Wilson: Kant's Treatment of Animals. Peter Singer: A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation. Tom Regan: The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights. Mary Ann Warren: A Critique of Regan's Rights Theory Dale Jamieson: Against Zoos. 3. WHAT IS NATURE? Holmes Rolston, III: Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species. Ned Hettinger: Comments on Holmes Rolston's "Naturalizing Values". John Stuart Mill: Nature. Arne Naess: The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement. Arne Naess: Ecosophy T: Deep Versus Shallow Ecology. Bill Devall and George Sessions: Deep Ecology. Fox, Warrick, Deep Ecology: A New Philosophy for our Time. Richard Watson: A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Ethics. Murray Bookchin: Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology. Ramachandra Guha: Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique. 4. ECOLOGICAL ETHICS. Donella H. Meadows: Biodiversity: The Key to Saving Life on Earth. Lilly-Marlene Russow: Why Do Species Matter? Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life. Paul Taylor: Biocentric Egalitarianism. Aldo Leopold: The Land Ethic. J. Baird Callicott: The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic. Christopher D. Stone: Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects. 5. POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION. Bill McKibben: A Special Moment in History: The Challenge of Overpopulation and Overconsumption. Garrett Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons. Jacqueline Kasun: The Unjust War against Population. Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics. William Murdoch and Allan Oaten: Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics. 6. POLLUTION: SOIL, AIR, WATER. Hilary French: You Are What You Breathe. George Bradford: We All Live in Bhopal. William F. Baxter: People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. David Pimentel: Is Silent Spring Beyond Us? 7. FOOD ETHICS Mylan Engel, Jr: Hunger, Duty and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Human Beings Tristram Coffim, The World Food Supply: The Damage Done by Cattle-Raising Michael Fox, Vegetarianism and Planetary Health. Jonathan Rauch Can Frankenfood Save the Planet? Mae Ho, Unholy Alliance: Critiques of Genetically Modified Foods. The ETC Report, The Poor can Feed Themselves. 8. CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY POLICY. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Understanding the Causes of Global Climate Change. UN report on climate change, Livestock's role in Climate Change and Air Pollution. Stephan Gardiner, Ethics and Global Climate Change. George Monbiot, The Denial Industry. Rising Tide: Hoodwinked in the Hothouse. Ashley Dawson, Climate Justice: The Emerging Movement against Green Capitalism. Wright/Pojman, Evaluating Technology Options. Barry Sanders: War and Climate Change. 9. RACE, CLASS, GENDER: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ECO-FEMINISM, AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS. Robert Bullard, Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decision Making. Peter S. Wenz, Just Garbage: The Problem of Environmental Racism. Marie Mies, Deceiving the Third World: The Myth of Catching-Up Development. Laura Westra, Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Some Possible Remedies. LaDuke, Winona. Excerpt, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Lobyn, Linda, Indigenous Knowledge and Technology: Creating Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy. Karen Warren Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism. Laura Westra, The Earth Charter: From Global Ethics to International Law Instrument. 10. THE GREENING OF SPIRITUALITY. Genesis 1-3. Barry Freundel: Jewish Tradition, the Traditional Jew and the Environment. Patrick Dobel: The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Attitude to Nature. Mawil Y. Izzi Deen: Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law, and Society. O. P. Dwivedi: Satyagraha for Conservation: A Hindu View. Lily De Silva: The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature. Starhawk & The Reclaiming Tradition: Pagan Environmentalism. 11. THE NEW GREEN CAPITALIST ORDER: ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND RESPONSE. William Rees: Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Global Realities. Mark Sagoff: At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic. Cobb, John B., Jr., "Toward a Just and Sustainable Economic Order," Magdoff & Foster What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism. Schweikart, David Is sustainable capitalism oxymoronic? Alan Thein Durning: An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising. Louis P. Pojman: The Challenge of the Future: Private Property, the City, the Globe, and a Sustainable Society. Louis P. Pojman: Sustainable Transportation. James Foreman: Strategic Monkeywrenching. Michael Martin: Ecosabotage and Civil Disobedience. Coming insurrection, The Invisible Committee.
About the Author
Louis Pojman attended Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, from which he received a M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion. In 1969 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and in 1970 a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997. His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Mississippi, where for three years he served as the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995 he accepted an offer to become Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He most recently was a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. The author or editor of over 30 books and 80 articles, Pojman won several research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988) and the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994). Louis Pojman passed away in 2005.
