by David L. Clough | Jun 13, 2018 | Opinion
I’m grateful to Martin Hodson for highlighting the tensions between environmental and animal ethics. The approaches have a very great deal in common, of course. Those beginning with animal ethics are acutely aware that the major threat to the well-being of wild...
by Martin J. Hodson | Jun 12, 2018 | Opinion
Many years ago, I was manning a booth for Sage, Oxford’s Christian environmental group, at the annual Green Fair in Oxford Town Hall. One of the visitors to the booth was Andrew Linzey, the leading Christian animal ethicist. Linzey was concerned that, in his...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | May 24, 2017 | Opinion
How do environmental ethics work out in practice in Christian contexts? We can often see tension between caring for the environment and focusing on human concerns. In the past, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) would not focus on human problems, while...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | May 23, 2017 | Opinion
In 1967, Lynn White proposed that the roots of our contemporary ecological crisis lay with the concept of dominion found in Genesis, and that Western technological development and approach to nature has been based on a concept that humans are separate from nature,...
by Martin J. Hodson and Margot R. Hodson | May 18, 2017 | Opinion
Environmental ethics is often thought to have originated in the 1970s, influenced by Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” and the rise of environmentalism. In 1971, J. Baird Callicott taught the first environmental ethics course in the world. Much...
