Baard, Patrik
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
This article argues that holistic ecocentrism unnecessarily introduces elements to explain why we ought to halt biodiversity loss. I suggest that atomistic accounts can justify the same conclusion by utilising fewer elements. Hence, why we ought to preserve biodiversity can be made reasonable without adding elements such as intrinsic values of ecosystems or moral obligations to conserve collectives of organisms. Between two equally good explanations of the same phenomenon, the explanation utilising fewer elements, which speaks in favour of atomistic accounts, will be the better one.
Nyckelord
Biodiversity; biocentrism; ecocentrism; Ockham's razor
Publicerad i
Environmental Values
2021, volym: 30, nummer: 1, sidor: 93-110
SLU författare
Associerade SLU-program
SLU Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald
UKÄ forskningsämne
Etik
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120X15752810324048
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/106532