Doing Environmental Ethics Large Print 16pt

Author : Robert Traer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429813412

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Doing Environmental Ethics by Robert Traer Pdf

Doing Environmental Ethics explains how we may transform our fossil-fuel-burning economy, which continues to intensify our ecological crisis, into a circular and ecological economy. The text resists political corruption and personal greed by gleaning ethical insights from our philosophical and religious cultures and by embracing the scientific Gaia hypothesis for the Earth. Its reasoning ascribes intrinsic worth to uplifting duties and rights as well as inspiring virtues and relationships, and tests applying these values by predicting the likely consequences of acting on them. It affirms all life has value for itself, and that human life also values reasoning and feelings and being ethical. The third edition examines US and international environmental policies through 2018. It analyzes the Trump administration’s repudiation of the environmental policies of the Obama administration and its new rules slashing the social costs of climate change. The text reviews a draft UN treaty that would impose human rights and environmental constraints on transnational corporations, but it also highlights outstanding examples of corporate upcycling and low-carbon innovation. Finally, the third edition explains why food security requires protecting the food sovereignty of farming communities and cooperatives, as well as public policies ensuring fair profits for farmers practicing agro-ecology.

Author : Robert Traer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459600027

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Doing Environmental Ethics (Large Print 16pt) by Robert Traer Pdf

Doing Environmental Ethics offers a way to face our ecological crisis that draws on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages students in constructing ethical presumptions based on our duty (to other persons and species and also to ecosystems), our character...

Author : Theodore J. Kaczynski,David Skrbina
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459610385

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Technological Slavery (Large Print 16pt) by Theodore J. Kaczynski,David Skrbina Pdf

Theodore Kaczynski saw violent collapse as the only way to bring down the techno-industrial system, and in more than a decade of mail bomb terror he killed three people and injured 23 others. One does not need to support the actions that landed Kaczynski in supermax prison to see the value of his essays disabusing the notion of heroic technology while revealing the manner in which it is destroying the planet. For the first time, readers will have an uncensored personal account of his anti-technology philosophy, including a corrected version of the notorious ''Unabomber Manifesto,''Kaczynski, s critique of anarcho-primitivism, and essays regarding ''the Coming Revolution.''

Author : Walter Echo-Hawk
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459602762

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In the Courts of the Conqueror (Large Print 16pt) by Walter Echo-Hawk Pdf

Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture. He analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines.

Author : James W. Sire
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459611146

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The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt) by James W. Sire Pdf

For more than thirty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. In this new fifth edition James Sire offers additional student-friendly features to his concise, easily understood introductions to theism, deism, naturalism, Marxism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern monism, New Age philosophy and postmodernism. Included in this expanded format are a new chapter on Islam and informative sidebars throughout.The book continues to build on Sire's refined definition of worldviews from the fourth edition and includes other updates as well, keeping this standard text fresh and useful. In a world of ever-increasing diversity, The Universe Next Door offers a unique resource for understanding the variety of worldviews that compete with Christianity for the allegiance of minds and hearts. The Universe Next Door has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been used as a text at over one hundred colleges and universities in courses ranging from apologetics and world religions to history and English literature. Sire's Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept provides a useful companion volume for those desiring a more in-depth discussion of the nature of a worldview.

Author : David R. Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : OCLC:1246787349

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Environmental Ethics by David R. Keller Pdf

Author : David P. Barash,Professor of Psychology and Founder and Director of the Peace and Strategic Studies Program David P Barash, PH.D.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781459609136

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Natural Selections (Large Print 16pt) by David P. Barash,Professor of Psychology and Founder and Director of the Peace and Strategic Studies Program David P Barash, PH.D. Pdf

If we are, in part, a product of our genes, can free will exist? Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe....

Author : Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry ,Blair Niblett
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781991201294

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Environmental Ethics by Bob Jickling,Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Lausanne Olvitt,Rob O’Donoghue,Ingrid Schudel,Dylan McGarry ,Blair Niblett Pdf

This well-constructed, and highly original, sourcebook integrates educational materials for teaching environmental ethics with theoretical reflections. The book is set to contribute immensely to its aim of taking ethics out of philosophy departments and putting it into the streets, into villages, and on the Earth—to make ethics an everyday activity, not something left to experts and specialists. Context-based activities are presented in almost every chapter. While it acknowledges foundational theories in environmental ethics, and the work that they continue to do, it wholeheartedly embraces a growing body of literature that emphasises contextual, process-oriented, and place-based approaches to ethical reflection, deliberation, and action. It walks on the ground and isn’t afraid to get a little dirty or to seek joy in earthly relationships. And it ultimately breaks with much Western academic tradition by framing “ethics in a storied world”, thus making room to move beyond Euro-American perspectives in environmental issues. This work will be of interest to school teachers and other non-formal and informal educators, teacher educators, college instructors, university professors, and other professionals who wish to bring environmental ethics to the forefront of their pedagogical practices.

Author : Royce Flippin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781459612303

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Best American Political Writing 2008 (Large Print 16pt) by Royce Flippin Pdf

The Best American Political Writing 2008 draws from a variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the year's most insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking pieces on the current political scene. This year's edition will include full coverage of the presidential candidates and conventions, and will offer incisive reporting o...

Author : Kim Bobo
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459619142

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Wage Theft in America by Kim Bobo Pdf

In what has been described as ''the crime wave no one talks about,'' billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year - a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category on record annually. Between two and three million workers are paid less than the legal minimum wage. More than three million are misclassified by their employers as independent contractors when they are really employees, allowing employers to shirk their share of payroll taxes and illegally deny workers overtime pay. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, estimated that companies annually steal $19 billion in unpaid overtime. Nationally recognized labor activist Kim Bobo's Wage Theft in America is an incisive handbook for activists, organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America's working people. Bobo offers a sweeping analysis of the crisis, citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers. She then offers concrete solutions, with special attention to what a new presidential administration can do to address one of the gravest issues facing workers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Albert Borgmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 036932160X

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Real American Ethics by Albert Borgmann Pdf

America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it? In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making of American values. Taking his cue from Winston Churchill - who once observed that we shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us - Borgmann considers the power of our most enduring institutions and the condition of our present moral makeup to propose inspired new ways in which we, as ordinary citizens, can act to improve our country. This, he shows, includes everything from where we choose to live and what we spend our money on to daunting tasks like the reshaping of our cities - habits and actions that can guide us to more accomplished and virtuous lives. Using prose that is easy and direct throughout, Borgmann's position is grounded neither by conservative nor liberal ideology, but in his understanding that he is a devoted citizen among many. In an age in which the blame game is the only game in town, this patriotic book is an eloquent reminder of the political strength we all wield when we work together.

Author : Frank Ackerman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459604254

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Priceless by Frank Ackerman Pdf

As clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it. More disturbingly, this approach is being embraced by a growing number of politicians and conservative pundits as the most reasonable way to make many policy decisions regarding public health and the environment. By systematically refuting the economic algorithms and illogical assumptions that cost-benefit analysts flaunt as fact, Priceless tells a ''gripping story about how solid science has been shoved to the backburner by bean counters with ideological blinders'' (In These Times). Ackerman and Heinzerling argue that decisions about health and safety should be made ''to reflect not economists' numbers, but democratic values, chosen on moral grounds. This is a vividly written book, punctuated by striking analogies, a good deal of outrage, and a nice dose of humor'' (Cass Sunstein, The New Republic). Essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of human health and environmental protection, Priceless ''shines a bright light on obstacles that stand in the way of good government decisions''.

Author : Audrey Young
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459612594

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The House of Hope and Fear by Audrey Young Pdf

Opening with the view of an idealistic, young doctor entering her first post-graduate job at the local county hospital, The House of Hope and Fear explores not only the personal journey of one doctor's life and career, but also examines the health care system as a whole. The county hospital setting provides the author with a second education. Wi...

Author : Stephen Legault
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781458783134

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Carry Tiger to Mountain: The Tao of Activism and Leadership: The Tao of Activism and Leadership (Large Print 16pt) by Stephen Legault Pdf

This fascinating and useful book is a modern - day interpretation of Lao Tzu'sTao te Chingfor those concerned with social issues and activist movements in Western civil society. It's a thoughtful examination of how the Tao' and Taoist thought' might be applied to the challenges' conflicts' and obstacles that activists and concerned citizens face as they deal with such issues as poverty' workers' rights' environmentalism' freedom of expression' gender and sexual equality' and social justice. The book also includes a verse - by - verse interpretation of theTao te Ching' one of the most important historical works of Chinese philosophy and is the basis of Taoism (or Daoism).This is a timely book about the role of spirituality in activism in the 21st century' and how we - not only activists per se' but those for whom issues of social and political justice are important - can forge new paths in our daily struggles to make the world a better place' and at the same time restore personal balance to our lives. It includes a foreword by Dr. Jim Butler' a political activist for the past 30 years who is also a Buddhist monk.

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0369316886

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Just Business by Alexander Hill Pdf

'An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.'' So said Mark Twain. But practicing Christians, at least, want to be ethical in all areas of life and work - - not just when they are holding four aces. To those faced with the many questions and quandaries of doing business with integrity, Alexander Hill offers a place to begin. Alexander Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice and love. These keys to God's character, he argues, are also the keys to Christian business ethics. Hill then shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of a fully Christian response. Finally, he turns to penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer - employee relations, discrimination and affirmative action, and environmental damage. This is an excellent introduction to business ethics for students and a bracing refresher for men and women already in the marketplace.