Loving an Unfamiliar World.

If climate change is as bad as many now predict, we may be faced with the problem of how to cope with a natural world that is changing more rapidly than our ability to form emotional attachments can keep pace with. How can we love a natural world that seems so strange and unfamiliar to us? For help...

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Publicado en:Ethics & the Environment Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17
Autor principal: McShane, Katie
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Publicado: Indiana University Press Spring2018
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