The ethics of species extinctions

This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely ‘extinction of populations and species is bad...

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Main Authors: Anna Wienhues, Patrik Baard, Alfonso Donoso, Markku Oksanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-01-01
Series:Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2755095823000219/type/journal_article