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Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
Images of Nature | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
"The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" | p. 4 |
[From] "Genesis" | p. 11 |
Aristotle, [From] Physics | p. 14 |
Aristotle, [From] Politics | p. 15 |
[From] The Second Treatise of Government | p. 15 |
[From] On the Origin of Species | p. 17 |
"Anthropocentrism and Predation" | p. 18 |
[From] "The Land Ethic" | p. 20 |
[From] "Walking" | p. 21 |
[From] Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy | p. 23 |
[From] "On Nature" | p. 24 |
[From] Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century | p. 26 |
[From] Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development | p. 29 |
[From] "The Golden Rule-A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis" | p. 30 |
[From] "Being Prey" | p. 32 |
[From] "The Basics of Deep Ecology" | p. 34 |
[From] Silent Spring | p. 36 |
Ethics and the Environment | p. 38 |
Introduction | p. 38 |
"Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental Ethic?" | p. 41 |
"Must a Concern for the Environment Be Centered on Human Beings?" | p. 46 |
[From] "On Being Morally Considerable" | p. 51 |
"Normative Ethics" | p. 57 |
"Environmental Virtue Ethics" | p. 67 |
[From] Respect Jot Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics | p. 72 |
[From] Beyond the Land Ethic | p. 82 |
Justice and the Environment | p. 90 |
Introduction | p. 90 |
"One Community" | p. 93 |
[From] "Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice" | p. 109 |
"Environmental Racism" | p. 122 |
Animals and the Environment | p. 140 |
Introduction | p. 140 |
"All Animals Are Equal…" | p. 143 |
"The Moral Status of Animals" | p. 151 |
"Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce" | p. 160 |
"Animal Liberation Is an Environmental Ethic" | p. 167 |
"Understanding Animal Rights Violence" | p. 177 |
Contemporary Issues and Controversies | p. 184 |
Food | p. 184 |
[From] "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture" | p. 186 |
[From] Eating Animals | p. 188 |
"The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals" | p. 189 |
[From] The Ethics of What We Eat | p. 191 |
"Eating Meat and Eating People" | p. 192 |
"Meat and Morality: Alternatives to Factory Farming" | p. 195 |
Wilderness | p. 202 |
[From] The Abstract Wild | p. 204 |
"The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" | p. 210 |
"Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" | p. 218 |
Biodiversity | p. 226 |
"Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism" | p. 228 |
[From] Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy | p. 240 |
"Biodiversity" | p. 244 |
Climate Change | p. 256 |
[From] "Global Warming in an Unequal World" | p. 258 |
"Ethics and Climate Change" | p. 262 |
[From] "Climate Change Justice" | p. 277 |
Aesthetics | p. 287 |
"Environmental Aesthetics" | p. 289 |
"Nature and Positive Aesthetics" | p. 298 |
"Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment" | p. 307 |
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