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Is the Biosphere a Luxury?
Author(s) -
Midgley Mary
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3563291
Subject(s) - biosphere , environmental ethics , earth (classical element) , epistemology , psychology , astrobiology , ecology , sociology , biology , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical physics
Wherever did we get the idea that we are no kin to the earth's other inhabitants, and that we can therefore deal with them as we please? Several strains of thought converged to produce this way of thinking, which must now be unlearned.