Environmental Ethics

When the Wilderness and the American Mind was published in 1967 the author Roderick Nash established himself as the head authority in American attitude towards nature. Nash wrote about the evolution of Americans relationship with the environment. Nash discusses the rights of nonhumans in nature and that those must be respected to keep a healthy balance. This respect was necessary to keep a balance between humans and their bioregion, they needed to respect nature in order to keep it healthy and also to sustain themselves. This published piece is also an important today in todays terms, the environment is not being respected as it once was.