The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics
Roderick Frazier Nash
University of Wisconsin Press
1989
This book traces the evolution of environmental ethics, from natural rights to the rights of nature, focusing on attitudes in the United States. He explores key figures like Locke, Thoreau, and Darwin, linking ecology and ethics. The work examines the greening of religion, philosophy, nature’s liberation, and the limitations of liberalism in extending rights to the non-human world.