Moral Particularism and the Imbalance of Nature
By Max Musson: In this modern age of concern for environmental issues, many people and even some naturalists who should know better, often talk of the ‘balance of nature’, and in reference to the impact of mankind’s growth and expansion across the globe, are highly critical, citing current trends as evidence that ‘we’ are “destroying the planet”. Worse than this however, is the tendency to view the lifestyles of the indigenous peoples of the ‘developing…