How do yoiu convince people nature is worth protecting, in this video I aim to explore this question in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. After spending several weeks in the Peruvian amazon, and being surrounded by all the life and different species it has me thinking about, sort of, the why save nature question, which is as an important part and probably one of the most important questions in conservation and environmentalism. And so I thought what i should do is put together a video kind of exploring that question from some different philosophical pathways, about why save nature, using examples from the Amazon in Peru. In this video I discuss utilitarianism, aestetics, libertarian extenstion, deep ecology and more...
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