Environmentalism, Ethics
and Equilibrium
Historicising the Kyoto Protocol: Climate
change, ethics and ecology
Heather Cockburn,
Alon Taylor and
Caroline Traill
History and
Philosophy of
Science
Firstly, a quick reminder
Please support
Exploit the
Earth Day!
Degrade
or Die!!!
Saturday 24th
May, 2008
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/exploit-the-earth-or-die.asp
Kyoto is more than simply reform
Kyoto reflects a worry about a destructive
and dominant anthropocentric, capitalist
backed scientific climate
Signing Kyoto means condemning the
accomplishments of scientific pursuits and
rationalist anthropocentrism!!!
And so the argument begins…
Does Kyoto put restrictions on the
natural evolution of humanity?
What about
survival of the
fittest!?!?
Allow for
natural
selection!
Kyoto is
“rerouting”
natural selection!
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070208/070208_darwin_vmed_10a.widec.jpg
What does god think of Kyoto?
Genesis – 1:26
“…Let us make man in our
image…let them rule over…all
the creatures that move along
the ground."
Genesis – 1:28
“Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth
and subdue it”
http://www.mathematik.ch/mathematiker/Descartes.jpg
Oui!!!
René Descartes
Animals
Are
Machines!
Cost of Kyoto in U.S.A
Roughly $300 billion
per year
The cost to humanity
is too great! Job cuts
petrol price hikes
recession, further
poverty in developing
countries!
(Baliunas, 2002).
But continued
atmospheric
destruction is going
to drown those
countries anyway!!!
Oh, yeah
e
Exploit?
x
Or nurture?
http://www.edp-uk.com/environment/images/burning_earth.jpg
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/pd_earth_hand_070904_ms.jpg
But how about our relationship with nature?
Deep Ecology
Nature is an
extension of
the self
Nature does
not belong to
man
Arne Naess
http://www.terrain.org/columns/18/images/bullhill_naess.jpg
“I would rather kill a man
than a snake!”
- Edward Abbey, American
essayist and
environmentalist
http://www.starspangledicecream.com/new/new-flavors.htm
Get Bush on the
line. It’s probably
time to sign Kyoto
http://i-eclectica.org/category/gaia/
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2001/109-12/spheres.html
WRONG
http://www.ohiopeakoilaction.org/threats-environmentaldestruction.html
RIGHT
http://www.infinityenergy.com.sg/images/photos/waterfall.jpg
Environmental Destruction
Uh Oh!!!
Time
Equilibrium?
BAD
GOOD
Dr Edward Jenner
"The German
countryside must be
preserved under all
circumstances…"
- Adolf Hitler
-http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/images/dogs/Hitler_w_Blondi_550.jpg
BALANCE…?