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Do we need nature? Getting to grips with a doubly misleading question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Warwick Fox
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Abstract

Warwick Fox questions the question set by Shell and The Economist for their year 2003 essay prize.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , Summer 2005 , pp. 79 - 86
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2005

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1 Passmore, John, Man's Responsibility for Nature: Ecological Problems and Western Traditions, 2nd ed. (London: Duckworth, 1980), p. 15.Google Scholar

2 Godfrey-Smith, William, ‘The Value of Wilderness’, Environmental Ethics, vol. 1, no. 4 (1979), pp. 309–319CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fox, Warwick, Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism (The State University of New York Press: Albany NY, 1995, and Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 1995), Ch. 6.Google Scholar

3 For more on the idea of responsive cohesion and its fundamental value, see Fox, Warwick, ‘Towards an Ethics (or at Least a Value Theory) of the Built Environment’, in Fox, Warwick, ed., Ethics and the Built Environment (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 207–21.Google Scholar