Should we care for environment?

Encyclopedia of Opinion

Question: Should we care for environment?
Position‹3 of 4›: No, human superiority allows us to use the environment for its instrumental value

This position holds that human superiority entitles us to use the environment for its instrumental value to us. It argues that, because only humans are capable of reason, the natural world holds no value in itself beyond what it offers human ends.

Supporting arguments · 1

Only humans are capable of reason
Humans have powers and attributes that do not exist anywhere else in nature