ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to the entailment thesis. The moral of the entailment thesis is that ecocentrists cannot remain neutral on issues of international justice and fairness. The chapter explores the fairness problem by offering a parable, which hopefully will serve to motivate an understanding of how and why the implementation of preservation policy purportedly leads to a problem. The claim wilderness preservation gives rise to a fairness problem, and the proposal that redistribution would resolve the problem, does not imply that the duty to preserve the wilderness is somehow conditional or trivial. The chapter suggests the Islanders a fairness problem, and that a redistribution of assets is one reasonable and obvious solution to the problem. On the face of it there is no reason for the ecocentrist to find this answer problematic. The leading idea of ecocentrism is that things other than humans can value, but generally it does not deny that humans value as well.
