Toby Svoboda

A Philosophical Case for Ecological Pessimism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our current ecological crisis-featuring climate change, ocean acidification, and mass extinction-raises moral issues, including a high probability of injustice and massive harm. This book defends a position called ecological pessimism, whose core feature is the belief that ecological catastrophe is likely to occur in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040332696
• Artikelnr.: 73302055

Autorenporträt

Toby Svoboda teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Colgate University. His previous book is A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy (Routledge, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ecological Risks 2. Understanding Pessimism 3. Evil in
Environmental Affairs 4. Objections to Ecological Pessimism 5.
Environmental Philosophy as a Way of Life 6. A Case for Meliorism 7. Why
Not Optimism?