Environmental Disobedience

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 498-509

  Hettinger, Ned ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Ecological injustice; Justification; Morally permssible; Property

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883654636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch36     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Eckersley, R. (1995) "Liberal democracy and the rights of nature: The struggle for inclusion," Environmental Politics 4, pp. 169-98. [Thought-provoking suggestions for a non-anthropo-centric democracy.]
2. Gandhi, M. K. (1971 [1957]) "Non-violence," in Civil Disobedience and Violence, ed. J. G. Murphy (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company), pp. 93-102 [Elegant and forceful defense of non-violence in an out-of-print but extremely useful volume.]
3. King, M. L. (1991[1963]) "Letter from Birmingham city jail," in Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. EL A. Bedau (London: Routledge), pp. 68-84 [Most famous document of American civil rights movement and compelling defense of civil disobedience.]
4. List, P. C. (1994) "Some philosophical assessments of environmental disobedience," in Philosophy and the Natural Environment, ed. R. Attfield and A. Belsey (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press), pp. 183-98. [An assessment for eco-activism of Carl Cohen's and John Rawls's accounts of civil disobedience.]
5. Martin, M. (1990) "Ecotage and civil disobedience," Environmental Ethics 12, pp. 291-310. [A favorable utilitarian assessment of eco-sabotage.]
6. Mathews, F., ed. (1995) "Ecology and democracy," Environmental Politics (special issue). [Excellent volume on liberal democracy's ability to respond to the environmental challenge.]
7. Morreall, J. (1991 [1976]) "The justifiability of violent civil disobedience," in Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. EE. A. Bedau (London: Routledge), pp. 130-43. [Analysis of violence showing that if ordinary civil disobedience is acceptable, so is more violent disobedience.]
8. Plato (1991) "Crito," in Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. EE. A. Bedau (London: Routledge), pp. 13-27 [Classic defense of law abidingness.]
9. Rawls, J. (1971) ATheory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). [Most influential book on political philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.]
10. Singer, P. (1991 [1973]) "Democracy as a plea for reconsideration," in Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. H. A. Bedau (London: Routledge), pp. 122-9. [Critique of Rawls on civil disobedience.]
11. Singer, P. (1993) Practical Ethics, 2nd edn (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press). [Chapter 11 is excellent on the ethics of lawbreaking.]
12. Stone, C. D. (1974) Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman, Inc.). [Sophisticated, environmentally motivated, legal philosophy.]
13. Thoreau, H. D. (1991 [1849]) "Civil disobedience," in Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. H. A. Bedau (London: Routledge), pp. 28-48. [Skepticism about government and powerful plea for individual responsibility.]
14. Watson, P. (1993 [1986]) "Raid on Reykjavik," in Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics, ed. P. C. List (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Inc.), pp. 172-6. [Reprinted from the Earth First! Journal.]
15. Young, R. (1995) "'Monkeywrenching' and the processes of democracy," Environmental Politics 4, pp. 199-214. [Best philosophical defense of eco-sabotage.]