80 - Do Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value? Pt. 1

The Badlands Politics & Philosophy Podcast

In this episode, we discussed Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic", the idea that ecosystems--including the water, the soil, the rocks, the plants, animals, etc.--have intrinsic value. The idea sounds quite radical against a backdrop of standard moral theories, but whether the view is true or not, there might be lots of good reasons to adopt it.
Toby Napoletano, Michael Hughes, Hanna Gunn