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expositions-1839	none	Does It Matter Whether Ecosystems Are Real?	2015	20	.pdf	application/pdf	7936	339	50	74 is this: in developing an environmental public policy, should we follow Fitzsimmons and encourage scientists to first settle the empirical question of whether ecosystems exist (and if so, what their boundaries are), and then leave it to the public and policymakers to determine whether ecosystems are worth preserving in the face of competing moral and public duties, or should we follow Norton, first identifying what sorts of things communities value, and then framing a public policy that selectively introduces expressions such as “ecosystem health” and “sustainability” with the goal of upholding this chosen set of community values? Much to the surprise of Fitzsimmons and the new paradigmists, their controversy on whether ecosystems are real is, if Norton is right, actually a debate about who is right as regards how best to serve the prevailing set of community values.	cache/expositions-1839.pdf	txt/expositions-1839.txt