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4 ssss1 I’m thinking here of those who consider the environment as being a constant medium in which humans or some specific agent (human) seeks to commit purposive action within his own rational life plan. These agents view nature rather like a swimming pool in which they partake for their own pleasure when they want to for their self-oriented purposes. I believe that these sorts of agents are on the front lines of being deniers of environmental change. For a brief discussion of this see: George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (London: Bloomsbury, 2015) and Haydn Washington and John Cook, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand (New York and London: Routledge, 2011).

5 ssss1 Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, revised edition 1976) sets out one model in which humans set themselves as above the natures of plants and animals to a place mid-way between these primitive entities on earth and angles. Such an ontology is, necessarily, dualistic with humans as the mid-point.