Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Value of Biodiversity
The notion that an extinction is bad and that species are good so fundamental to not only my world view, but to my personal identity. When i started really digging into the environmental ethics literature about the the value of diversity, i found myself in a confusing position. There's more than one type of value, and i i unpack them in the book. But then you get into complicated ethical questions like, is it still intrinsically valuable if there's nobody around that values it intrinsically? Is it somehow a sort of metaphysical property that exists in the biodiversity itself? Or is it because there's lots of people andLots of non human sentient creatures that like biodiversity that is valuable? So that is a tricky
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