📗 Libro en inglés WHAT S SO GOOD ABOUT BIODIVERSITY?: A CALL FOR BETTER REASONING ABOUT NATURE S VALUE

This book is unique in its treatment of biodiversity, which has come to be an emblem of what is worthy of protection and fostering in the natural world. It undertakes a comprehensive, detailed, and careful philosophical analysis of the many reasons that scientists, economists, philosophers, and others offer for why biodiversity is supposed to be such a central good of nature. Its conclusion is both surprising and disturbing: No reason for biodiversity''s good can be found that is not ill-conceived, logically indefensible, internally contradictory, or self-undermining. The profound failure to find the good of nature in its biodiversity is a springboard for rethinking what, exactly, makes the natural world so uniquely and robustly valuable. This leads to a novel suggestion – that nature''s value might be located in a particular human-nature relationship, which anchors the appropriate fit of people in the world at large. Understanding nature''s value in this way has far-reaching consequences, which call into question common orthodoxies of conservation, restoration, and environmentalism generally.