Perhaps if the preservation of nature is to mean anything in the concrete legal and policy world in which we live, it is time to move away from our reliance on fundamentally changing grass-roots conventional moral values as a prerequisite to policy in a bottom-up approach to change. Instead,...

If the COVID-19 pandemic tells us anything, it is that an environmental risk policy focused primarily on an efficient economy and only the ex post regulation of harm to the environment is not adequate. It fails to protect and empower of the intrinsic human and natural values that ought to be the...

This is an early article of mine that argues that cost-benefit methods, although claiming to empower human 'autonomy', does not have an adequate basis in moral principle to protect more than a 'thin' and morally impoverished ethical standard of judgement promoting Kaldor Efficiency. This limits...