Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare. It might be thought that the widespread acceptance of moral anti-realism would undermine the aims of environmental ethicists. One reason is that recent empirical studies purport to show that moral realists are more likely to act on the basis of their ethical convictions than anti-realists. In addition, it is sometimes argued that only moral realists can countenance the claim that nature is intrinsically valuable. Against this, we argue that the acceptance of moral anti-realism is no threat to the environmentalist cause. We argue, further, that the acceptance of moral realism is potentially an obstacle to delivering on a third core demand: namely, that successful action on climate change and environmental destruction requires us to change some of our commonly held ethical views and, in so doing, to pursue and ultimately achieve a workable consensus.

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环境伦理学家应该害怕道德反现实主义吗？

几十年来，环境伦理学家一直认为，迅速采取行动保护我们的自然环境在道德上是最重要的，我们对环境的关注应该超越其对人类福祉的重要性。人们可能会认为，道德反现实主义的广泛接受会破坏环境伦理学家的目标。一个原因是，最近的实证研究表明，道德现实主义者比反现实主义者更有可能根据他们的道德信念行事。此外，有时有人争辩说，只有道德现实主义者才能支持自然具有内在价值的主张。与此相反，我们认为接受道德反现实主义对环保主义事业没有威胁。我们进一步论证，