Does nature have value in itself?
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Instrumental (extrinsic) value?
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Being valuable for what it does for us — take away the use and the value goes.
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Intrinsic value?
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Being valuable in itself, for its own sake — worth something even if no one ever uses it.
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Deep ecology (Naess)?
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The view that all living things have worth in themselves, so humans are one strand of the web, not its owner.
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Naess: shallow vs deep environmentalism?
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Shallow = protect nature so WE stay healthy; deep = the living world matters for its own sake.
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Naess's 'self-realisation'?
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Widening your sense of self to include the living world, so protecting nature becomes self-care, not sacrifice.
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Social ecology (Bookchin)?
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The view that abuse of nature grows out of humans dominating other humans — heal unjust society and our bond with nature heals too.
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Deep vs social ecology?
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Deep ecology: the crisis is a wrong view of value. Social ecology: the crisis is unjust human power. Both want to save the planet.
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The fault line of this micro?
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Whether nature has value IN ITSELF, or only value for us — the debate the whole topic turns on.
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