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    Challenges→As wilderness becomes increasingly rare, the chance of human lives and values being transformed through interactions with nature is reduced

    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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    Baird Callicott(as a named environmental philosopher)
    An influential American philosopher who developed ideas about how humans should relate to nature and other living things based on ecological science.
    Cultivated engagement(describing intentional interaction with nature)
    Deliberately spending time learning about and connecting with something, rather than just encountering it by chance.
    Degraded ecosystems(as examples of environments that can still teach us moral lessons)
    Natural environments that have been damaged, polluted, or weakened by human activity or neglect.
    Environmental philosophers(as the main subject of the statement)
    Philosophers who think deeply about our relationship with nature and what we owe to the environment, animals, and ecosystems.
    Paul Gobster

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    (as a named environmental philosopher)
    A researcher and philosopher who studies how people experience and value natural landscapes, including ones that have been damaged or restored.
    moral development(Mencius's conception)
    The process of extending the natural beginnings of virtue to situations where they ought to extend but do not currently extend.

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