BODY AND ENVIRONMENT

My thesis is the biconditional that it is morally wrong to pollute hum an bodies if and only if it is morally wrong to pollute the environmen t. The argument for each conditional is by analogy: pollution of one t ype is analogous to pollution of the other type in morally relevant re spects. I argue that the truth of the biconditional makes it difficult to maintain that it is morally wrong to pollute human bodies without maintaining that it is morally wrong to pollute the environment and co nversely.