Watersheds 4 Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics

Environmental issues can be complex. You need an environmental ethics textbook that you can actually understand. WATERSHEDS 4: TEN CASES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS provides ten fascinating case studies of real-life environmental conflicts and explains the principles involved in an easy-to-understand, impartial way.

PREFACE

VIII

INTRODUCTION

X

CHAPTER 1 OF GREENHOUSES AND FREEZERS

1

(15)

The Perils of Global Climate Change

Introduction: Hollywood at Its Best

1

(1)

The Current Concern Over Global Warming

2

(2)

The Litany of Disaster

4

(4)

National Policy Options

8

(2)

Can International Agreements Cool Off the Greenhouse?

10

(3)

Conclusion

13

(3)

CHAPTER 2 GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS

16

(21)

The Complex Difficulties of Frankenfood

Introduction: A Hungry World

16

(1)

Law and Order: The Prosecutor's Tale

17

(3)

The Origins of Genetic Modification of Plants

20

(2)

The Unexpected Political Backlash

22

(8)

The Future of GMOs

30

(7)

CHAPTER 3 SKUNKED

37

(18)

Crisis in the New England Fisheries

Introduction

37

(1)

Too Many Boats Chasing Too Few Fish

38

(2)

The Captains Courageous: Fishing in New England

40

(4)

The Russians Are Coming! And the Germans, Poles, Spanish

44

(4)

Present and Future

48

(7)

CHAPTER 4 THE INGENUITY OF THE BUGS

55

(23)

Combating Resistance to Antibiotics

Introduction: Thinking Like an Ecosystem

55

(3)

The Slow Destruction of an Ecosystem

58

(4)

Down on the Pharm

62

(3)

Plague Years: AIDS, Tuberculosis, and the Future of Disease

65

(5)

A Nuclear Solution?

70

(2)

The Search for Bears

72

(6)

CHAPTER 5 OIL ON THE ROCKS

78

(20)

The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez

Introduction

78

(1)

Reflections on Responsibility

78

(1)

The Event: Ship Meets Reef

79

(2)

Prince William Sound: The End of Innocence

81

(2)

The Response: Studies in Dysfunction

83

(6)

A Slick of Lawyers over Alaska

89

(2)

Hazelwood Was Not Alone

91

(2)

So It Will Never Happen Again

93

(5)

CHAPTER 6 THE EXTENDED FAMILY

98

(18)

The Saga of the Great Apes

Introduction

98

(1)

The Traditional Food of the Indigenous Populations

98

(3)

The Quarry in the Great Bushmeat Hunt

101

(3)

Apes in the Wild: The Preservation of Endangered Ecosystems

104

(2)

Apes in the Laboratory: Utilitarian Benefits and Troubling Claims of Right

106

(2)

Apes in Court: Should They Have the Rights of Persons?

108

(2)

Ecotourism and Respect

110

(6)

CHAPTER 7 CHLORINE SUNRISE

116

(25)

The Beneficent Possibilities of a Known Poison

Better Living through Chemistry, Or Maybe Not

116

(3)

The Classic Environmental Debate

119

(17)

The Construction of a Sustainable Industry

136

(3)

Concluding Observation

139

(2)

CHAPTER 8 ARE WE THE PROBLEM?

141

(16)

Addressing the New Population Dilemma

Introduction: China-Four Faces of the Population Problem

141

(3)

Paul Ehrlich's Bomb and the Affluent Society

144

(8)

The Role of the International Community

152

(1)

United States Policy: A Footnote

153

(4)

CHAPTER 9 FUELING THE WORLD

157

(16)

What Are the Alternatives for Energy?

Introduction: 400 Miles on a Tank of Gas

157

(2)

The Black-Hole Question of Conventional Fuel

159

(5)

Alternative Fuels: An Overview

164

(5)

Tides, Geothermals and a Summing Up

169

(4)

CHAPTER 10 BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

173

(24)

Saving the Uniquenesses of the World

Introduction: The Beginning of the End or Just in Time?

173

(6)

Why Does Biological Diversity Matter?

179

(4)

How Serious Is This? Very.

183

(7)

More on the Response, Legislative and Otherwise

190

(2)

Action to Save Species-What Can We Do?

192

(1)

Conclusion

192

(5)

EPILOGUE

197

(4)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

201

(4)

INDEX

205

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