A new way to look at nature is what we get out of it and that we should preserve those resources so we don’t run out of them. Different approaches has be used to preserve nature; look in terms of human rights or nature rights. However just because these rights exist does not mean that the problem is solved and that everything ideal since it is established on a paper and people will follow it. There is a lot of flaws especially looking from human rights perspective since it is a pretty selfish view.

What are human rights that Burdon describes and also what are the critiques of it?

The term human rights has been used as a broad term for different injustices and now it has been extended to the environment. One of the arguments is that human rights don’t explain the exploitation of resources and can’t be used as a model to explain the causes. It only has a view point from humans and not as much of the environment. The author states that the social concept of human rights is concerned only for our benefit instead of intrinsic values of nature.  The second critique of this concept that it does not get rid of social ranking and dominance just changes the framework of the concepts. There is little hope that it can change the view of capitalist’s growth economics and factors associated with it.