What is to Be Done? A Response to Jay Odenbaugh’s ‘Should We Kill One Owl to Save Another?’

Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (2):185-189 (2025)
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Should we kill one owl to save another? Should we kill hundreds of thousands of owls, to forestall the extinction of a different type of owl? What if the future of the Pacific Northwest’s remaining...

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