BIOC63H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Soybean, Biophilia Hypothesis, Alphabet Inc.
18 Nov 2013
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Religious biophilia: humans have no right to destroy biodiversity, protection of species/nature justified in many religions. If god (or other diety or process) created natural world, creatures are sacred and have intrinsic value. Judeo-christian world-view god conferred intrinsic value on every living creature by pronouncing creation to be. Goog" (genesis) i. e. we should not e destroying what god values as good. Usefulness of intrinsic value for conservation: most fundamental, key to many motivations for conservation, operationally often based on religion, often ineffective in policy debates with diverse stakeholders. Intrinsic value should be the most important reason as to why we shouldn"t be destroying the wolrd, but we often need other reasons than just that. Extrinsic value we add value and we define why species are important. 1: people consume mostly corn, wheat, rice and potao and soy bean (excluding sugar cane and sugar beet)
