2. How did we get this diversity of life found on Earth? 3. How did humans evolve? (my only paper; ) Science Deep Ecology Begins with the premise that all species have value in themselves, and humans • have no right to reduce this richness. The philosophy includes an obligation to work to implement the needed changes • through a commitment to personal lifestyle changes and political activism. Urges all concerned people to escape from their narrow, everyday concerns and to • act and if nature live “as mattered.” See Primack Table 6.1 above • Discovering Radical Environmentalism in our Own Backyard from Natural – Rights to Rights of Nature. Essay by Roderick Frazier Nash, U of California, Santa Barbara (see ) Natural rights liberalism is the most potent concept in the history of American • thought In 1215 the Magna Carta challenged the exclusivity of the royal definition of • rights The message was straightforward: we are members of this society and we want • rights too American colonies had expanded this meaning • By 1776 England’s – “all men” had rights and they were willing to fight for them men, and female were not regarded as full members of • Yet, “red men, black men” the moral community
2. How did we get this diversity of life found on Earth? 3. How did humans evolve? (my only Science paper; ) Deep Ecology • Begins with the premise that all species have value in themselves, and humans have no right to reduce this richness. • The philosophy includes an obligation to work to implement the needed changes through a commitment to personal lifestyle changes and political activism. • Urges all concerned people to escape from their narrow, everyday concerns and to act and live “as if nature mattered.” • See Primack Table 6.1 above Discovering Radical Environmentalism in our Own Backyard – from Natural Rights to Rights of Nature. Essay by Roderick Frazier Nash, U of California, Santa Barbara (see ) • Natural rights liberalism is the most potent concept in the history of American thought • In 1215 the Magna Carta challenged the exclusivity of the royal definition of rights • The message was straightforward: we are members of this society and we want rights too • By 1776 England’s American colonies had expanded this meaning – “all men” had rights and they were willing to fight for them • Yet, “red men, black men, and female men” were not regarded as full members of the moral community