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In Chapter 3, we saw that our moral relations with the natural world are too diverse to be captured in the monochromatic idiom of values-thinking. To understand those relations we need to consider a range of factors: not just how much value our actions promote but our bonds with non-human others, for example, or the ideals we express through acting in certain ways towards natural things.
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James, S.P. (2009). Why Conserve Nature?. In: The Presence of Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248526_5
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