Comments on: Book review – Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:36:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-26877Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:18:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-26877[…] Goulson first gives you his reasons for why he thinks insects matter, which are a mixture of both instrumental and intrinsic values. He candidly admits that “For me, the economic value of insects is just a tool with which to […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-18598Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:32:45 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-18598[…] if the intrinsic value of biodiversity does not sway you, Scales is no stranger to discussing the deep’s instrumental values. The capacity of seawater […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-1778Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:22:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-1778[…] I reviewed the book Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics, one of the reasons that was discussed as to why we should protect nature was the possibility of […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-1779Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:22:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-1779[…] I reviewed the book Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics, one of the reasons that was discussed as to why we should protect nature was the possibility of […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-658Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:38:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-658[…] You might ask “Who cares?” Does it really matter whether we know that some bandicoot scurrying through the undergrowth of a tropical forest in Papua New Guinea is not actually one, but two species? Or that some genus of tarantula in the United States was incorrectly described by a 19th century systematist and that several species turn out to be one and the same? This goes right to the heart of the question why we should care about biodiversity at all, something I wrote more about in my review of Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-597Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:56:25 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-597[…] hot on the heels of Cambridge’s Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics, Oxford University Press has just published the edited collection Effective Conservation Science: […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2018/03/16/book-review-defending-biodiversity-environmental-science-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-592Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:04:42 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1582#comment-592Stefan Linquist replied to my review by email, and I thought his answer was worth quoting here:

“[…] Interesting final point about our book not providing guidance on the way forward. I agree. I am starting to think that we as a society need to have a bigger conversation about possible futures, which ones we prefer, and at what cost. Neither science nor philosophy provide a clear cut answer, unfortunately.”

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