Toward a materialist environmental ethic

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-393

  Peterson, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 33846116738     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics20062844     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09/nicholaspoll.htrnl. See also Matthias Finger, "From Knowledge to Action? Exploring the Relationships Between Environmental Experiences, Learning, and Behavior," Journal of Social Issues 50, no. 3 (1994): 141-60.
2. Robert Jensen, "Sustainability and Politics: An Interview with Wes Jackson," Counterpunch, 10 July 2003,http://www.counterpunch.org/ jensen07102003.html.
3. Max Oelschlaeger, Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 230, 5.
4. J. Baird Callicott, Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), p. 234.
5. Michael Taussig, Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 226.
6. See, for example, Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), p. 345;
7. Max Oelschlaeger, Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994);
8. Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34;
9. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990), p. 123;
10. and Rebecca Raglon and Marian Scholtmeijer, "Shifting Ground: Metanarratives, Epistemology, and the Stories of Nature," Environmental Ethics 18 (1996): pp. 19-38.
11. David Laitin, "Religion, Political Culture, and the Weberian Tradition," World Politics 30, no. 4 (1978): 589.
12. Laitin, "Religion, Political Culture," p. 586.
13. Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 86.
14. Orsi, Madonna of 115th Street, pp. 178, 182.
15. Anna L. Peterson, Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).
16. George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004), p. 17.
17. Ibid., p. xv.
18. Lakoff would add brain structures and neural networks to the list of influences.
19. Karen Warren, "The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism," Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 125-46.
20. Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment to American Life (Bekeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985).
21. Jim Cheney and Anthony Weston, "Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette," Environmental Ethics 21 (1999): 115-17.
22. Ibid., p. 118.
23. Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation(Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1973), pp. 15, 11.
24. Juan Luis Segundo, The Liberation of Theology (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1976), p. 8.
25. Cheney and Weston, "Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette," p. 119.
26. Ibid., p. 125.
27. Anthony Weston, "Non-Anthropocentrism in a Thoroughly Anthropocentrized World," The Trumpeter 8, no. 3 (1991): 2; http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/contents/v8.3/weston.html.
28. Jackson, "Sustainability and Politics."
29. For some people, especially poor people and those in rural areas, Wal-Mart is the most affordable or only choice for needed items such as shoes, clothing, and groceries. The conclusion to be drawn from this situation is that people need better choices. We need not condemn people who are forced into bad choices, for we all have "dirty hands," but neither need we approve of, or accept, situations that force many to make destructive choices.
30. Weston, "Non-Anthropocentrism," p. 1.
31. Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach," in Robert Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), p. 145.
32. Ibid., p. 144.
33. Thanks once more to an anonymous reviewer for clarifying this point.
34. Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction," in Robert Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), p. 54.
35. Marx. "Contribution to the Critique," in Tucker, Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 54.
36. Within environmental philosophy itself, we may also build on naturalistic models, such as the work of Holmes Rolston, III, which see an objective value in nature.
37. Jackson, "Sustainability and Politics."
38. William R. Jordan III, The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003), p. 5.
39. Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism, ed. Robin Gable, with an introduction by Robin Blackburn (London: Verso: 1989), p. 242.
40. Jordan. The Sunflower Forest, p. 56.
41. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Pantheon, 1996), p. 264.
42. Jackson, "Sustainability and Politics."