Watersheds 3 Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics

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.

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)

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