Exemptionalism vs environmentalism: the crucial debate on the value of ecosystem health

摘要: Abstract The concept of exemptionalism holds that human society is exempt from the biophysical laws control other species because ingenuity, technology, creativity and economic systems. Some economists believe resource depletion irrelevant alternative resources will be developed if there enough demand backed by money. A related statement any problem created technology can resolved technology. Within these frames reference, ecosystem health minor, arguably no, importance to exemptionalist. environmentalism views Homo sapiens as just another biological tightly controlled laws, but which able modify more than species. This view acknowledges society's dependence on ecological life support systems services they provide assumes well-being closely linked with natural Only within later framework ...