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Ecocentrism -- putting the Earth first -- recognizes that we are mutually dependent with all life systems on this home planet.
Debra Shore: The Audacity of Slope, or How The River Gets Its Groove Back 2009
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” Refocusing Ecocentrism”, Environmental Ethics, 21: 3-21
Environmental Ethics Brennan, Andrew 2008
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A term in ecological political philosophy used to denote a nature-centred, as opposed to human-centred, system of values. The justification for ecocentrism normally consists in an ontological belief and subsequent ethical claim. The ontological belief denies any existential divisions between human and non-human nature sufficient to ground a claim that humans are either (a) the sole bearers of intrinsic value or (b) possess greater intrinsic value than non-human nature. Thus the subsequent ethical claim is for an equality of intrinsic value across human and non-human nature, or ‘biospherical egalitarianism’.
December 23, 2013
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