ABSTRACT In a critical engagement with the second edition of Paul Thompson's The Spirit of the Soil, I offer two sets of considerations in support of developing his agrarian view of sustainability into a conception of enlightened land stewardship that is capable of serving as a wider conception of environmental ethics for the Anthropocene. First, I argue that paying attention to emergent novel ecosystems in a framework of adaptive ecosystem management across varied landscapes can help recognize and integrate values associated with both production and preservation, thus substantially easing the tension Thompson identifies between them. Second, Thompson's agrarian vision of sustainability in The Spirit of the Soil is unfortunately restricted by an essential connection with the work of growing and consuming food, but in The Agrarian Vision (2010) Thompson offers a much broader and inclusive conception agriculture. I argue that if we adopt his own broader conception of agriculture, then Thompson's arguments favoring the concept of sustainability over a model of global stewardship become significantly compromised.

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改变花园的神话

摘要在与保罗·汤普森（Paul Thompson）的第二版《土壤的精神》第二版中进行的重要接触中，我提供了两方面的考虑，以支持将他的农业可持续性观点发展为开明的土地管理概念，该概念可以作为更广泛的土地管理概念。人类世的环境伦理。首先，我认为，在跨各种景观的适应性生态系统管理框架中关注新兴的生态系统可以帮助识别和整合与生产和保护相关的价值，从而大大缓解汤普森在它们之间所确定的张力。其次，不幸的是，汤普森在《土壤的精神》中对可持续性的农业愿景受到了与种植和消费食物的工作之间必不可少的联系的限制，但是汤普森（Thompson）在《农业视野（2010）》中提供了范围更广，包容性更高的概念农业。我认为，如果我们采用他自己更广泛的农业概念，那么汤普森的主张可持续性而不是全球管理模式的论点就被大打折扣。