The ethics of species extinctions

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dc.catalogadorjlo
dc.contributor.authorWienhues, Anna
dc.contributor.authorBaard, Patrik
dc.contributor.authorDonoso Moscoso, Alfonso Luis
dc.contributor.authorOksanen, Markku
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-09T15:34:34Z
dc.date.available2025-01-09T15:34:34Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely ‘extinction of populations and species is bad’. Illustrating such debates in environmental ethics, the guiding question for this review concerns why – or when – anthropogenic extinctions are bad or wrong, which also includes the question of when that might not be the case (i.e. which extinctions are even desirable). After providing an explanation of the disciplinary perspective taken (section “Introduction”), the concept of extinction and its history within that literature are introduced (section “Understanding extinction”). Then, in section “Why (or when) might anthropogenic extinctions be morally problematic?”, different reasons for why anthropogenic extinctions might be morally problematic are presented based on the loss of species’ value, harm to nonhuman individuals, the loss of valuable biological variety and duties to future generations. This section concludes by also considering cases where anthropogenic extinctions might be justified. Section “How to respond to extinctions?” then addresses a selection of topics concerning risks and de-extinction technologies. Finally, the section on “Extinction studies” introduces other viewpoints on the ethics of extinction from the extinction studies literature, followed by the “Conclusion”.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2025-01-09
dc.format.extent15 páginas
dc.fuente.origenORCID
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/ext.2023.21
dc.identifier.eissn2755-0958
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2023.21
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/89581
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Ciencia Política; Donoso Moscoso, Alfonso Luis; 0000-0003-1787-4372; 8566
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.revistaCambridge Prisms: Extinction
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectBiodiversity loss
dc.subjectPlanned extinction
dc.subjectHuman-driven extinction
dc.subjectEthics and policy
dc.subject.ddc570
dc.subject.deweyBiologíaes_ES
dc.titleThe ethics of species extinctions
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen1
sipa.codpersvinculados8566
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2024-01-22
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