Philosophy Now Forum

Jim Moran explains why saving the planet will be an uphill struggle.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/88/Thre ... Philosophy

Jim Moran writes: "One of the early contributors to this project was Aldo Leopold, who was not a philosopher but a professor of forestry and land management."

Like that statement suggests, I don't think the substance and solutions to save our environment will come so much from philosophers, as Moran is hoping, but more from practical avenues like those of professor Aldo Leopold's forestry and land department. Instead, the major contribution philosophers will make towards the environment, as they always have with other endeavors, is to keep going and broaden the discussion so as to increase the levels of awareness.

We are never going to get back.