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What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?

Use delayed ecological damage, choices that change who will exist, and low-probability technological catastrophe to compare moral community, time, identity, and responsibility.

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  1. 1949

    The posthumous A Sand County Almanac recasts humans as members, not conquerors, of the land community.

    Leopold — From conqueror to member of the land community

  2. 1979

    The Imperative of Responsibility extends technological ethics to future people and planetary conditions.

    Jonas — Greater power of action expands responsibility for the future

  3. 1984

    Published in Oxford, Reasons and Persons makes future identity and population ethics central philosophical problems.

    Parfit — Can we harm future people whose existence depends on our choice?

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  4. 1993

    Feminism and the Mastery of Nature analyzes ecological destruction through conceptual structures linked to gendered, embodied, and colonial domination.

    Plumwood — Human/nature dualism and the logic of domination