Environmental Ethics Flashcards
The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis
Lynn White
“What people do about their ecology depends on what they think about themselves in relation to things in the environment “
Lynn white
Believes humans possess a anthropocentrism view due to christianity
Lynn White
Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin
Silent Springs
Rachel Carson
Philosophers urged to seriously consider aspects of environmental problems
Earth Day (1970)
Concerned with the natural environment and human’s place within it. A branch of this philosophy is “environmental ethics”
Environmental philosophy
Studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment and its nonhuman contents
Environmental ethics
Difference between ethics and morals?
Ethics are a moral code among a group and morals are your own ideas and beliefs
Genome is retrieved and reactivated using sophisticated cloning to implant dead cell nucleus int a fresh egg from another from species
Gastric Brooding Frog and De-extinction