ABSTRACT
A more inclusive ethics asks about valuing directly all living things and the generative processes that sustain life at all its levels. Why should we mind plants if nothing matters to them? Genetic value, cybernetic value is coded in genes. Probably we judge that weeds and invasive plants are of no value. We find beauty in nature, but we often find nature ugly—perhaps not on landscape scales. A biocentric ethic respects all organisms, beyond humans and animals. We consider naturalizing values.
