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Knowing Killing And Environmental Law, Lisa Heinzerling
Knowing Killing And Environmental Law, Lisa Heinzerling
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
My goal here is modest: I simply wish to defend the view that the moral commitment against knowing killing should play a role in decisions about environmental problems. In recent years, economic analysis has substantially succeeded in de-ethicizing environmental issues; this paper is part of an effort to re-ethicize them. In previous work, I have criticized the use of cost-benefit analysis in making decisions about the environment. One source of my criticism has been the mismatch between moral values and economic valuation. I have, however, tended to leave the moral values I have defended rather vaguely defined. In this paper, …
Minnesota Wild, Lisa Heinzerling
Minnesota Wild, Lisa Heinzerling
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In these remarks I am going to tell two stories and then add - to the growing list compiled so far in this Symposium - two new quasi-religious, metaphorical figures. In keeping with our overall theme of eco-pragmatism, my remarks will be experimental, contingent, even nonlinear. I hope you will indulge me.