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    Further trade-offs of intrinsic value derived from naturalness for intrinsic value from other sources can no longer be justified

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    • 1.The reduction of intrinsic value due to depletion of naturalness on earth has reached a critical level
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    • 2.At this level, no further reduction of naturalness-derived intrinsic value can be compensated by intrinsic value generated in any other way, regardless of magnitude
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    • 3.Even a consequentialist framework permits trade-offs of intrinsic value only when compensation is genuinely possible
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    • 1.Bryan Norton's weak anthropocentrism holds that transformed, human-cultivated environments can generate morally significant intrinsic value through long-term preference satisfaction.
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    • 2.If cultivated landscapes generate genuine intrinsic value, the asymmetry the claim posits between naturalness-derived and other intrinsic value is question-begging.
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    • 3.A lexical priority rule favoring naturalness over all other intrinsic value sources requires justification beyond the mere fact of depletion, which the supporting arguments do not supply.
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    • 1.Intrinsic value is not cardinally measurable, so claims about 'critical thresholds' of naturalness-derived value lack coherent mathematical foundations.
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    • 2.Without cardinal measurement, no principled distinction exists between a threshold that prohibits all trade-offs and one that merely demands greater caution.
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    Individual natural entities (whether sentient or not, living or not), Andrew Brennan (1984, 2014) argues, are not designed by anyone to fulfill any purpose and therefore lack “intrinsic function” (i.e., the function of a thing that constitutes part of its essence or identity conditions). This, he proposes, is a reason for thinking that individual natural entities should not be treated as mere instruments, and thus a reason for assigning them intrinsic value. Furthermore, he argues that the same
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