People Or Penguins: The Case For Optimal Pollution

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William Baxter’s argues in his paper “People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution” that we cannot stop polluting the environment without harming humans, but this is unfounded; by polluting our environment we morally and physically damage our own species. Baxter’s paper argues that the effects of DDT to penguins are inconsequential to humans, but DDT affects the well-being of both species. Any anthropocentric benefits of pollutants are undermined by their negative effects to the environment through biogeochemical cycling which connects humans to the global ecosystem. Toxic chemicals found in environmental pollutants such as insecticides and microplastics can severely harm humans who are exposed to them. Morally, we can refer to Immanuel
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