About this Book

The 12 essays in this volume, originally delivered as lectures at Yale in 1989, approach environmental degradation from a unified ecological, economic, and ethical perspective. The contributors agree that the global environmental crisis is the result of an ethical position that sees only immediate instrumental value in nature, and of policies that sacrifice long-range economic and ecological stability for short-term gain. Now we are faced with seemingly impossible choices, such as forests or economic viability, pollution or recession. The collection includes sections on species diversity, agriculture, environmental values, pollution, and market mechanisms. The authors address ecological problems on a global scale, and make specific and practical proposals for changes that would mend the broken circle of ecology, economics, and ethics. ISBN 0-300-04976-5: $26.50.