History and

Philosophy of Science

Historicising the Kyoto Protocol: Climate change, ethics and ecology

Heather Cockburn, Alon Taylor and Caroline Traill

Environmentalism, Ethics and Equilibrium

Firstly, a quick reminder

Please support

Exploit the Earth Day!

Saturday 24th May, 2008

http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/exploit-the-earth-or-die.asp

Degrade or Die!!!

Kyoto is more than simply reform

Kyoto reflects a worry about a destructive and dominant anthropocentric, capitalist

backed scientific climate

Signing Kyoto means condemning the accomplishments of scientific pursuits and

rationalist anthropocentrism!!!

And so the argument begins…

Does Kyoto put restrictions on the natural evolution of humanity?

What about survival of the

fittest!?!?

Kyoto is “rerouting”

natural selection!

Allow for natural

selection!

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070208/070208_darwin_vmed_10a.widec.jpg

“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth

and subdue it”

Genesis – 1:28

“…Let us make man in our image…let them rule over…all the creatures that move along

the ground."

Genesis – 1:26

What does god think of Kyoto?

Oui!!!

http://www.mathematik.ch/mathematiker/Descartes.jpg

AnimalsAre

Machines!

René Descartes

Cost of Kyoto in U.S.A

Roughly $300 billion per year

(Baliunas, 2002).

The cost to humanity is too great! Job cuts

petrol price hikes recession, further

poverty in developing countries!

But continued atmospheric

destruction is going to drown those

countries anyway!!!

Oh, yeah

http://www.edp-uk.com/environment/images/burning_earth.jpghttp://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/pd_earth_hand_070904_ms.jpg

exExploit?

Or nurture?

But how about our relationship with nature?Deep Ecology

http://www.terrain.org/columns/18/images/bullhill_naess.jpg

Arne Naess

Nature does not belong to

man

Nature is an extension of

the self

http://www.starspangledicecream.com/new/new-flavors.htm

“I would rather kill a man than a snake!”

- Edward Abbey, American essayist and

environmentalist

http://i-eclectica.org/category/gaia/

Get Bush on the line. It’s probably time to sign Kyoto

http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2001/109-12/spheres.html

http://www.ohiopeakoilaction.org/threats-environmentaldestruction.html http://www.infinityenergy.com.sg/images/photos/waterfall.jpg

WRONG RIGHT

Uh Oh!!!En

viron

men

tal Destru

ction

Time

Equilibrium?

BAD GOOD

Dr Edward Jenner

-http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/images/dogs/Hitler_w_Blondi_550.jpg

"The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances…"

- Adolf Hitler

BALANCE…?