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    As wilderness becomes increasingly rare, the chance of hu... — Carmelics
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    As wilderness becomes increasingly rare, the chance of human lives and values being transformed through interactions with nature is reduced

    Environmental Ethics
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    • 1.Transformation of values and life-orientation can result from interactions with nature
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    • 2.People's exposure to wild things in their natural state has become reduced as wilderness becomes rarer
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    • 1.Transformative encounters with nature occur through cultivated attention and aesthetic perception, not merely through physical proximity to wilderness.
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    • 2.Thoreau's concept of 'wildness' in Walden locates transformative value in a quality of experience accessible in local, degraded, or semi-wild landscapes.
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    • 3.Therefore, the reduction of designated wilderness does not proportionally reduce the availability of transformative nature experiences.
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    • 1.The argument presupposes a Romantic model of transformation through sublime wilderness, ignoring that urban natures, ecological restoration, and managed landscapes also generate profound value shifts.
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    • 2.Environmental philosophers like Baird Callicott and Paul Gobster have documented transformative moral development arising from cultivated engagement with ordinary or degraded ecosystems.
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    Despite the variety of positions in environmental ethics developed over the last thirty years, they have often focused on issues concerned with wilderness and the reasons for its preservation (see Callicott and Nelson 1998 for a collection of essays on the ideas and moral significance of wilderness). The importance of wilderness experience to the human psyche has been emphasized by many environmental philosophers. Næss, for instance, urges us to ensure we spend time dwelling in situations of int
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