A topic within Applied Ethics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
2 works
John Muir
Argues wild places have value that has nothing to do with resource extraction and everything to do with what contact with them does to a person, and campaigns for their protection on exactly that basis.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Lynn White Jr.
Argues that Western Christianity's doctrine of human dominion over nature, more than any technology, is the deep cause of the modern ecological crisis, and that a solution has to be at least partly religious rather than only technical.
link checked 17 Sept 2026