The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature

Evidence

Hayward claims that an interest in integrity is the most fundamental human interest. This concern with integrity, meaning an integrated, undivided whole, begins with an interest in the integrity of ourselves as organisms, and expands to psychological, cognitive, and moral integrity. Hayward argues that this human interest in self-respect and integrity provides reasons to respect nonhuman beings and their environments. … Basically, Hayward argues for a concern for the integrity of nature based on rational and enlightened human self-interest rather than a belief in the intrinsic value of nature. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 454 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concepts are tools for dominating nature, not for understanding it — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 52; Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1036; Statistical objectivity in environmental policy rests on unwarranted assumptions about the physical world — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 15 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Respect for nature can rest on human self-interest in integrity, not intrinsic value #complicates (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 454