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    It is not the case that An adequate environmental ethic must assign non-derivative moral standing to evolutionary and ecological processes; utilitarianism's experientialist foundation structurally prevents it from doing so.

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    • 1.Utilitarians can ground environmental duties in sentient interests: ecosystem collapse causes massive animal suffering across generations.
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    • 2.The claim that utilitarianism structurally prevents non-derivative standing conflates utilitarian foundations with utilitarian conclusions about value.
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    • 3.Assigning direct moral standing to 'processes' rather than entities or beings raises metaphysical questions about what grounds such standing.
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    • 1.Evolutionary processes have intrinsic value independent of whether they produce sentient experiences or maximize aggregate welfare.
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    • 2.Utilitarianism reduces all moral value to conscious experiences, making ecosystem stability and biodiversity valuable only instrumentally.
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    • 3.Environmental harms like species extinction and habitat loss can be morally catastrophic even when sentient suffering is minimal or absent.
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