A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Notes

1. The Kyoto treaty is an agreement reached under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The 164 countries (as of July 2006) which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol are, among other things, committed to reducing their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases, or to engage in emission trading if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases. For details of the protocol, see: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

2. Consult, e.g., the UK Labour Party official website http://www.labour.org.uk/environ-ment04. See, e.g., www.shell.com (Shell’s official website) for examples of their views on environmental issues.

3. e.g. Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.

4. See, e.g., W. S. Kempton, J. M. Boster J. A. Hartley (1997) Environmental Values in American Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997).

5. See, e.g., A. Light and H. Rolston (eds), Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), or R. Elliot (ed.), Environmental Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

6. For an excellent introduction to the debate about the scope and different varieties of environmental ethics, see A. Light, “Environmental Ethics,” in R. G. Frey and C. H. Wellman (eds), A Companion to Applied Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 633–49.

7. For a defence of the view that cities and not only the non-built part of ...