|  Some people, for reasons quite beyond the rational, believe that huge, wild areas are valuable for their own sake. These areas should be as free as possible from human influence in order to satisfy the criterion of sacred otherness. Science cannot prove or disprove intrinsic value in wilderness or any other entity. But if we accept that humans have intrinsic value, as do almost all ethical traditions, then only anthropocentric prejudice would keep us from recognizing such value in others. In the final analysis, intrinsic values are the only values that stand on their own, unfettered by tenuous links to utility. What good is wilderness? One might as well ask the rocks in the canyon. “Wilderness,” Ed Abbey wrote, “needs no defense, only more defenders.”
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