Watersheds 3 Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics

by Newton, Lisa H.; Dillingham, Catherine K.

• ISBN13: 9780534511821
• ISBN10: 0534511821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-16
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This is the only environmental casebook of its kind, presenting current and classic cases with the detail required for students to experience serious and complex issues. The authors present cases of immediate interest to students in a balanced and impartial manner.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
The Nature of the Problem	xiii
The Reason and Plan for This Book	xvii
Notes on the Text	xviii
Frankenfood Meets The Greens	1	(30)
The Controversy over Genetically Altered Crops
Questions to Keep in Mind	1	(1)
The New Scientific Horizon	1	(2)
Unexpected Controversy	3	(3)
The Terminators and the Lordly Monarchs	6	(4)
Fighting a Netwar: The Legacy of Mad Cows	10	(7)
Productive Cows and Frankenfish: Two Miniatures of the Controversy	17	(2)
The Wall Street Waffle	19	(4)
Precautionary Principle Versus Risk Benefit Ratio: Why Public Relations Is Not the Only Problem	23	(1)
Where We Go from Here	24	(2)
Questions for Reflection	26	(5)
The Human Family Grows	31	(14)
Population as a Problem
Introduction	31	(1)
Questions to Keep in Mind	32	(1)
What Happened? The Demographic Transition	33	(1)
Environmental Impacts of Human Population Growth	34	(3)
China and India	37	(1)
U.N. Conferences	38	(1)
U.S. Position on Population Policies	39	(1)
Predictions and Solutions	40	(3)
Questions for Reflection	43	(2)
Life in the Greenhouse	45	(14)
The Effects of Global Warming
Questions to Keep in Mind	45	(1)
Background for the Topic	45	(1)
On Not Really Knowing	46	(1)
Jim Hansen Blows the Whistle	47	(1)
More Evidence of Warming	48	(1)
Predictions and Variables	49	(2)
What's Going on at the Poles?	51	(1)
Missing Warming, Missing Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sinks	52	(1)
Energy	52	(2)
Global Geopolitics: The U.N. Conferences	54	(2)
Questions for Reflection	56	(3)
The Extended Family	59	(19)
The Saga of the Great Apes
Questions to Keep in Mind	59	(1)
Bushmeat	59	(3)
The Quarry in the Great Bushmeat Hunt	62	(4)
Apes in the Wild: The Preservation of Endangered Ecosystems	66	(2)
Apes in the Laboratory: Utilitarian Benefits and Troubling Claims of Right	68	(2)
Apes in Court: Should They Have the Rights of Persons?	70	(2)
Ecotourism and Respect	72	(3)
Questions for Reflection	75	(3)
A Question of Responsibility	78	(22)
The Legacy of Bhopal
Questions to Keep in Mind	78	(1)
Desperately Seeking Warren Anderson	78	(4)
The Corporation in India	82	(2)
The Explosion: Accounts and Responsibilities	84	(5)
The Varieties of Multinational Corporate Activity	89	(2)
Some Questions to This Point	91	(1)
The Industry's ``Never Again''	91	(9)
The Silence of the Birds	100	(15)
Rachel Carson and the Pesticides
Questions to Keep in Mind	100	(1)
The Wake-Up Book	100	(2)
Rachel Carson, Naturalist and Prophet	102	(2)
The Reaction to the Book	104	(3)
The Trouble with DDT	107	(2)
National Response: Regulation	109	(1)
The Update on Pesticides	110	(1)
Alternatives to Pesticides	111	(1)
Conclusion	112	(1)
Questions for Reflection	112	(3)
The Loss of an Ally	115	(25)
The Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance
Questions to Keep in Mind	115	(1)
Thinking Like an Ecosystem	115	(3)
The Slow Destruction of an Ecosystem	118	(4)
Down on the Pharm	122	(4)
Plague Years: AIDS, Tuberculosis, and the Future of Disease	126	(5)
The Search for Bears	131	(4)
Questions for Reflection	135	(5)
Skunked	140	(17)
Crisis in the New England Fisheries
Questions to Keep in Mind	140	(1)
Too Many Boats Chasing Too Few Fish	140	(2)
The Captains Courageous: Fishing in New England	142	(8)
Present and Future	150	(4)
Questions for Reflection	154	(3)
To Reclaim a Legacy	157	(23)
The Tallest Trees in America
Questions to Keep in Mind	157	(2)
The Owl and His Trees	159	(3)
The Terms of the Act	162	(1)
The Oldest Trees	163	(1)
Business and the Temptation to Overharvest	164	(2)
Pacific Lumber: A Short History and Apologia	166	(1)
The Hostile Takeover	167	(1)
The Rationale of Destruction	168	(1)
Can We Reclaim the Redwoods for Our Own?	169	(3)
The Company's Position	172	(1)
The Role of Government	173	(3)
Toward a Forest Future	176	(1)
Questions for Reflection	177	(3)
Legacy of War	180	(16)
The Nuclear Weapons Cleanup
Questions to Keep in Mind	180	(1)
The Tanks of Menace	180	(3)
Scientists Experimenting for the Good of the Nation	183	(1)
By-Products of Weaponry	184	(2)
The Extent of the Problem: Hanford, Rocky Flats, and Savannah	186	(1)
The Rocky Flats Trial	187	(5)
Questions for Reflection	192	(4)
Epilogue Projections of Despair and Hope	196	(3)
Further Readings	199	(4)
Index	203