We will read Why Posterity Matters by Avner deShalit, as well as papers by Robert Elliot, David Gauthier, and others. Many people regard the growth of human population as the most serious environmental problem we face, but there is no agreement amond philosophers, lawyers, environmentalists, or economists on how population problems should be evaluated, or how population policy should be framed. Participation in discussion and presentations in seminar. Population Ethics and Population Growth 25. Forthcoming in Christoph Fehige and Ulla Wessels, eds.
Lets start indoors.
Let's start by imagining a find Persian carpet and a hunting knife. The carpet is twelve feet by eighteen, say. That gives us 216 square feet of continuous woven material. If not, we hone it. We set about cutting the carpet into thirty-six equal pieces, each one a rectangle, two feet by three.