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Earth and Other Ethics: The Case for Moral Pluralism
Earth and Other Ethics The Case for Moral Pluralism Author:Christopher Stone Should rivers and forests enjoy the protection of the law? Should a captive dolphin have the right to sue for its freedom? Are we obliged to protect our twenty-second-century descendants from the contamination of nuclear trash? — Today's increasingly complex technology -- from computer chips to engineered genes -- has expanded our power to af... more »fect the lives of persons and other creatures in remote time and space, even to work basic changes in the planet's environment. This increased power, combined with a growing sympathy for nature and a sobering sense of planetary limits, challenges the conventional framework of law and morals.
Christopher D. Stone is Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center, and author of "Should Trees Have Standing?" -- an examination of the legal and ethical rights of natural objects.« less