ABSTRACT
Recent books on environmental issues usually inform readers of the emergence, during the last twenty years, of a ‘new’ environmental ethic, sometimes going by such names as ‘deep ecology’ or ‘ecophilosophy’. This ‘new’ ethic is prominent, for example, in current discussions of ‘sustainable development’: a familiar line being that, if this is to be more than the attempt to spin out industrial growth for a few more years, it must be converted by a moral perspective into ‘reverential’ or ‘integral authentic’ development.
