Weird Environmental Ethics

What is it about?

This paper argues for a Weird environmental ethics. It does so by offering wonder as a virtue that is situated within environmental virtue ethics. Further, it establishes Weird-species fields as an organizing principle for thinking about entangled materiality and how wonder helps to promote flourishing in a climate changed world.

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Why is it important?

It extends environmental virtue ethics and provides a mechanism for thinking about flourishing in an unknown future. Climate change is requiring a re-evaluation of our values and a reorganization of what it means to flourish. The virtue of wonder and a weird environmental ethic help to establish ethical means and concepts to navigate those uncertain futures.