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Author, environmental ethics philosopher to visit Northland College

November 12, 2010

Editor, author, and professor Michael P. Nelson will give a public presentation at Northland College on Friday, November 19. The presentation, titled “Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World: What do We Owe the Future?” will be held in the Sentry Room of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute beginning at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

With guest readers, stories, music and several philosophical adventures, Nelson’s presentation shows why technological fixes are not enough to stop the destruction of the environment, and explores reasons why it’s wrong to leave behind a ransacked and dangerously unstable world, suggesting novel ideas for how we might act in ways worthy of us as moral beings.

Nelson is the co-editor, with Kathleen Dean Moore, of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, a compilation of essays and testimony that presents a compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet. The compilation features the work of over 80 visionaries, including the Dalai Lama, President Barack Obama, Bill McKibben, and bell hooks.

Nelson is an associate professor of environmental ethics and philosophy in the Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the co-author or co-editor of four books, including The Great New Wilderness Debate, and American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study.