Environmental Science and Environmental Advocacy
—Nordgren, Science, Ethics, Sustainability, Uppsala, 1997

"Environmental Science and Environmental Advocacy," in Anders Nordgren, ed., Science, Ethics, Sustainability: The Responsibility of Science in Attaining Sustainable Development, Centre for Research Ethics, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studies in Bioethics and Research Ethics 2 (Uppsala, Sweden, Centre for Research Ethics, 1997), pp. 137-153. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/46013

Also presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, February 16-21, 1995.

Science and conscience have a complex, elusive relationship, nowhere better illustrated than in the relationship between environmental science and environmental ethics. Each can inform the other to connect facts with values, descriptions with prescriptions, to make advocates out of scientists and scientists out of advocates. Making these connections, always important, is more urgent than ever; indeed, the future of the planet and all those who reside on it, depends on joining science and conscience.