Environment

60	"The Land Ethic" Aldo Leopold	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
61	"A Place for Cost Benefit Analysis" David Schmidtz
62	"Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments" Thomas E. Hill Jr.
63	"Hume and Nature" Alan Carter

Philosophical Essays

• Brook, Andrew. "The Structure of Ethical Positions on the Environment."  In Research Methods and Ethical Issues Associated with Resource Extraction and Resource Management in Forestry and Mining.  ed. Wesley Cragg, Laurentian.
  
  
• E. Meinberg. "Environmental Destruction: A Philosophical-Anthropological Perspective."   Paideia Project on Line.
  
  
• Thompson, Paul. "Sustainability as a Norm."  Techné.
   
• Warren, Karen J. "Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries About a Distributive Model."
   
• Weir, Jack. "Case-Based Environmental Ethics."  Paideia Project on Line.
  

Popular discussion and empirical information on, among other things, climate change.

• Alaska Rainforest Campaign.  To find out more about the state of the environment in the U.S. principal remaining wilderness area.
  
  
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development.  A site by the U.S. Department of Energy.  Includes links and papers.
  
  
• Climate Change and Extreme Weather (from NOAA). A detailed statistical study showing just how unlikely recent extreme weather could have happened just by chance or from natural cyclical changes in the weather.
  
  
• Climate change will increase the number of extreme weather events, from the IPCC (2011).
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency - the U.S. governmental agency required to enforce environmental laws.  Includes all relevant laws and regulations.
  
  
• European Environment Agency.  Perspectives on environmental issues from the continent.
  
  
• Former climate change skeptic now says climate change is real and is caused by humans.
   
• Global warming.  U.N. Scientific Panel's major report on global warming (2007). 
  
  
• Global Warming.  Union of Concerned Scientists' documents:  (a) Minor problems with the UN Panel's Report do not undermine the evidence for gloabal warming; (b) Explanation of what "Uncertainty" means in Science.
  
  
• Greenpeace.  The first environmental activist organization.
  
  
• Information center for the environment, from the University of California-Davis. Describes various environmental projects throughout California.
  
  
• Institute for Biodiversity. From Costa Rica.
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2013: The Physicial Science Basis. Claims climate change if for real, and there is at least a 95% chance that humans are responsible. Consulted more than a thousand climate scientists.
  
  
• Nordic countries perspectives on environmental issues.  Site begins in Sweden.
  
  
• "Policing the Oceans."   Radio interview with Paul Watson, one of the founders of Greenpeace, and now the Captain of the Sea Shepherd.  Watson uses direct action to try to stop whaling and the killing of other sea mammals. [RealAudio]
  
  
• Population and Agriculture.  Radio interview with Paul Waggoner on the possible effects on the environment of increasing populations. [RealAudio]
  
  
• SeaShepherd Society.  This group, founded by Captain Paul Watson, is an activist group that takes direct action to save marine line -- especially whales and sea lions.  Click here to hear an interview with Watson.
  
  
• Sierra Club.  One of the oldest environmental organizations.
   
• Smart (environmentally conscious) communities
  
  
• "Turn Down the Heat."A World Bank Report on the need to battle climate change now.
  
  
• UK national environment research council.  
  
  
• United Nations Environment Programme, with links to environmental efforts around the world.
   
• Vegetarianism and Global Warming.  Researchers claim that going vegetarian does more to reduce global warming than buying a hybrid car.
   
• Web Server at the University of North Texas, dedicated to listing web links on environmental issues.
  
  
• World Wide Fund for Nature.  International organization concerned about the environment.
  

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