Begins like this:
I’m serving on a panel of environmental economists at the September
2009 “Business and Environmental Ethics Conference” hosted by the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University (here is the link to last years ethics conference
[I'm hoping I'm able to post a video afterwards!]). Not knowing
anything, at all, about ethics (or ethical behavior [smug wink]), I
begin reading, er, skimming the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
entry on Environmental Ethics. I learned a number of intrinsically useful things, including the difference between instrumental value and intrinsic value.
“Things,” such as environmental and natural resources, can have instrumental and intrinsic value. Instrumental values are generated from our use of these things. In contrast, things have intrinsic values if they have value in and of themselves. My 10 minute talk in September will focus on environmental ethics and benefit-cost analysis – a tricky subject. ...
“Things,” such as environmental and natural resources, can have instrumental and intrinsic value. Instrumental values are generated from our use of these things. In contrast, things have intrinsic values if they have value in and of themselves. My 10 minute talk in September will focus on environmental ethics and benefit-cost analysis – a tricky subject. ...
Read the whole dang thing here: http://theenergycollective.com/TheEnergyCollective/41517.
