"Environmental Ethics in a Changing Climate"

Dr. Clare Palmer presents "Environmental Ethics in a Changing Climate". How can we best care for our world? Dr. Clare Palmer will discuss the challenges presented by climate change and technological change and will use case studies to suggest how we might respond.
Environmental ethics and policy in the United States have long championed the values of ecological communities, species and wildness. These values have been protected in important environmental legislation such as the US Endangered Species Act (1973) and the Wilderness Act (1974). However, Dr. Palmer will argue, as we move into the Anthropocene - that is, the current era of human dominance - significant challenges to the understanding and protection of these traditional environmental values exist.