Date: Monday, February 05, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM — 9:30 PM
Speaker/Performer: Peter G. Brown
Location: Agnes Scott College; Evans Hall, Terrace level, rooms ABC
Agnes Scott Ethics Lecture Series:
“Is Nature Ours? Ethics, Economics and the Environment”

Do humans own the earth or do we just act as though we do?
What is the cost of perceiving the rest of nature merely as
a resource? Peter Brown, professor in the departments of
geography and natural resource science at the McGill
University School of Environment, will argue that humans
don’t own the Earth and that the belief that we do is a
significant cause of the environmental degradation that is
overtaking us and many other species. He will suggest a more
promising future lies in Albert Schweitzer’s idea of
reverence for life.

Free, no ticket required.