142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Our current ecological crisis—featuring problems such as climate change, ocean acidification, and mass extinction—raises various moral issues, including a high probability of injustice and massive harm. This book defends a position called ecological pessimism, an attitude whose core feature is the belief that ecological catastrophe is likely to occur in the future.
The author’s defense of... Read more
Introduction
1. Ecological Risks
2. Understanding Pessimism
3. Evil in Environmental Affairs
4. Objections to Ecological Pessimism
5. Environmental Philosophy as a Way of Life
6. A Case for Meliorism
7. Why Not Optimism?
Biography
Toby Svoboda teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Colgate University. His previous book is A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy (Routledge, 2022).
