 For instance, one might think that recognizing that the environment is part of our cultural heritage can ground distinctive reasons or obligations to preserve it (Thompson 2000a). For instance, viewing aspects of the environment as part of a cultural inheritance from our ancestors might offer reason to preserve the environment as part of an intergenerational social contract (Thompson 2000a,b); or, because “particular places matter to both individuals and communities in virtue of embodying their history and cultural identities” (O’Neill, Holland, &amp; Light 2008: 2–3) we might think our approach to environmental preservation and decision-making should be guided in part by the question: “What would make the most appropriate trajectory from what has gone before?” (O’Neill, Holland, &amp; Light 2008: 156); or, we might recognize that 