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4. Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche

verfasst von : Martin Bohle, Eduardo Marone

Erschienen in: Exploring Geoethics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The societal relevance and purpose of geoscience are discussed from a conceptual perspective in this chapter. It explores how people should live ethically in times of anthropogenic global change and describes the history and current state of ‘human niche-building’ (or ‘engineering’, in its broadest sense) at the planetary scale. It outlines how the Earth can be conceived as a single system, ‘people included’, by considering the geosphere, biosphere and ‘noosphere’—a term repurposed here to denote the human agent and its socio-technological means, consisting of physical and mental artefacts. It posits Kohlberg’s hierarchy of moral adequacy as a reference scale for assessing the maturity of human–Earth interactions, and argues for the social value of geoethical thinking in shaping public narratives about these interactions.

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Metadaten
Titel
Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche
verfasst von
Martin Bohle
Eduardo Marone
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12010-8_4