Cs 201 3(2)

Faith and conservation ethics

6-7:15 Domination thesis lecture7:15 – 7: 25 break7:25 - 8 Discussion

8-8:30 Closing comments

Locke – Father of Liberalism

Judyism was the world’s first religion..

it was the worship of a great big God named Yahoo

J Baird Callicot

Franz Gall – size matters

Ray Kurzweil

"WHEN historians finally conduct an autopsy on the Soviet Union and Soviet Communism,

they may reach the verdict of death by ecocide."

Aldo Leopold – A “land Ethic”Sand County Almanac (1949)

Garrett Hardin

Blud und Boden

Herbert Gruhl - ecofascist

Is environmentalism a new religion?

Are humans more valuable than other parts of the biota, like animals? Why? If not, whose rights do we safeguard first when there is conflict?