Saving Nature, Feeding People, and the Foundations of Ethics
Author(s)
Rolston, Holmes III
Abstract
I reply to Robin Attfield’s and Andrew Brennan’s criticisms of my claim that, at difficult times, one ought to conserve nature preferentially to caring for persons who are poor. They argue that such tradeoffs are avoidable, also that I fail to lay blame and responsibility for such lamentable circumstances in the right places. I argue that tiger conservation in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal, does and ought to give tiger conservation priority over some of the desires for development of locally impoverished peoples. Ben Minteer argues that nature conservation ought to be “culturally-occupied”; I argue respect for intrinsic value in nature.
