Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments: Return of the Plastic-tree Zombies

摘要

Forget Aldo Leopold. Or Holmes Rolston, Ⅲ, or Baird Callicott. Forget Arne Naess. I vote for Martin H. Krieger as the most influential environmental philosopher of all time. It has been over 40 years since he published 'What's wrong with plastic trees?' and it has been over 30 years since we killed and buried that argument-or so I thought. (I can still hear the sound of the clods of dirt, thrown by Mark Sagoff and me, on the coffin.) Yet I guess the appeal to human interest arguments is like a zombie that never really dies, always returning to wreak havoc on the civilized world.