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Green issues are looming ever larger in the public consciousness. But the different interpretations of different political parties of what being green involves bring to attention the need for a theory which can help settle disputes such as whether or not the contribution of conventional energy generation to the greenhouse effect makes nuclear energy green by comparison, what is at stake when tropical rain-forests are destroyed, and whether (as some say) environmentalism is only possible for economically productive countries, or (as others say) is even more vital for those which are less developed.
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Attfield, R. (1998). The Comprehensive Ecology Movement. In: Morscher, E., Neumaier, O., Simons, P. (eds) Applied Ethics in a Troubled World. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5186-3_1
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