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Instrumental value of nature

Nature has instrumental value when you recognize it as a tool that serves human needs—clean water, food, oxygen, the pharmacopeia we haven't discovered yet. It's a perfectly legitimate reason to protect the natural world, even if it's not the deepest reason.

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