Holmes Rolston III: In Memoriam Ted Peters Planet Earth will miss its renowned paladin, Holmes Rolston III (1932-2025). He died on February 12 this year. Holmes was an academic champion of environmental ethics and public policy who influenced philosophers, theologians, scientists, and the wider public. A New Environmental Ethics Like a biblical prophet, Holmes announces the coming of a day of judgment. “The worry for the next century is that humans may destroy their planet and themselves with it,” writes Holmes in the second edition of his A New Environmental Ethics (Rolston III, A New Environmental Ethics 2nd ed, 2020, 245). This is Holmes’ prophetic judgment: we Homo sapiens on Planet Earth are risking the destruction of our home. Unless, of course, we repent.
September 2024 Blog
ISSR After More than 20 Years: Where We Came From, and Where We are Going Niels Henrik Gregersen, ISSR President ISSR from 2002 to Today: Three Developments When I was elected as President of ISSR in 2023, I had the feeling of coming home to the fruitful atmosphere of the early days of the society. Much remained the same. There is a strong sense of the overall purpose of the Society as an active learned society, and there is a well-functioning institutional structure as well—even though we can no longer afford to rent property, as we earlier had it in St Edmund’s College in Cambridge. Over the last twenty years, ISSR has been in a process of development through different Executive Committees and Presidents—from John Polkinghorne