Value in Nature

Our traditional humanitarian ethics demands that all responsibilities lead to a person's "self", a valuable entity with its own rights and obligations. But nature works on different grounds: "There is no right in the wild, nature is indifferent to the happiness of a particular animal" (Rolston, p. 75). And in order to form autonomous environmental ethics, we must be able to focus on ourselves beyond humanism and move towards new sources of value and new value. In this article I will study the value of nature, in particular the systematic value of Holmes Ralston III and ecological ethics, and the land aesthetics of Aldo Leopold (eg J.).

The meaning and value of nature are expressed in various ways (see Table 51 in Example 2), evolving according to the background of geography, culture, economy and others. The value related to nature can be very complicated. For example, the community garden provides not only food resources (Utilitarian value) but also emotional support (human value). In a study on city community gardens in the neighborhood of Loisaida neighborhood in New York City, the gardeners often say that "how to make us feel like a part of the community and part of the community, even in the unclean places of Loisaida" It is recorded. Crime in the street. "52

Economist Pavan Sukhdev thinks there is. His pioneering work in recognizing the importance of "natural capital" gained him the reputation of "natural banker". The basic idea is to evaluate nature protection quantitatively. This means, in particular, pricing natural resources to promote economic growth in developing countries, and using this quantitative value as the price of the product production chain. This means economically classifying rain and wind in consideration of quantitative and qualitative aspects such as value added to the community in terms of economy - for example, in the shrimp farm in Indonesia In terms of computing the value of mangroves in the park - and in terms of social costs, these losses have destroyed the lives of millions of people by calculating damage from deforestation and landslides.

The value of civilization is an important or non-essential product of human activity, it has its own abilities or is combined with other civilizations or values ​​of nature, and one or more self-interesting constituents It is recognized by others as a potential source of. On the economic side, entities including civilizations and values ​​of nature may appear on the market in the form of goods or services. For example, let's follow the 15 minute routine. Breakfast croissants include civilized values ​​such as farmers planting land, harvesting crops, mills, transportation, bread-making etc. Your coffee is on your table. While drinking espresso, you can check news and emails on your smartphone - Please choose "Starry Night" of Van Gogh as a background image