Proceedings of the 1991 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 19-20, 1991, Athens, Georgia.This paper seeks the root cause of our environmental ethic; our reverence and caring for non-human life. The
anthropocentric form of the environmental ethic is dismissed as hollow and unsatisfactory because it does not
explain our deep feelings for the environment. The argument used in this paper starts by noting our ethical concerns for preserving human life, and then by analogy,
this concern is related to environmental ethics.Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.This book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors
