environmental Ethics Flashcards
}Grew out of the first “?” in 1970
}Environmentalists were urging the general public to ??and take action on environmental issues.
Also urging philosophers to turn their attention to the development of an ethic towards the ?.
Earthday
raise awareness
environment
There are many definitions for environmental terms and some interchangeability :
What is he combination of all external conditions and influences relating to the life, development and survival of living things called?
Ecosphere:… (the bio-)
Land: …
Environment
The bio-bubble that contains life on earth, in surface waters and air
The earth’s surface, containing all the natural resources used to produce goods and services
}Environmental Ethics
◦The ethical relationship between
}Land Ethics
◦Theory and practice about
(cdv) related to land
humans and the environment in which they live
concern, duties and values r_elate_d to land
- Created by Aldo Leopold and published in his book “A Sand County Almanac” (1949)
- Recognized the non-human components of our living community as things that need to be conserved: S,W,P,A
See: www.aldoleopold.org
Soil, water, plants, animals
Aldo Leopold
He argued people need to change they way they TATE
We need to reflect on the value of our environment and develop ideas about (r and w b t i)
He believed a change in how we VTE would ultimately change the way we behave towards it.
think about the environment
right and wrong behaviour towards it.
value the environment
Leopold Quote 1
}“That land is a c is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be L and R is an extension of ethics.”
community
loved and respected
Question:
Why is it important that land is loved and respected in order for us to behave ethically towards it?
(…….ethical……………….see, feel, understand, love……………..)
Leopold’s answer:
“We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love or otherwise have faith in”
Environmental Ethics
◦The ethical relationship between humans and the ? in which they live
Land Ethics
◦Theory and practice about concern, duties and values related to ?
environment
land
Quote 2: Ecological Conscience
“A land ethic reflects the existence of an E C, and this, in turn, reflects a conviction of individual R for the H of land”
ecological conscience
responsibility
health
Find an example of an environmental issue that shows how developing an ecological conscience led people to take responsibility and change their behaviour.
Litter
Most people do not litter like they used to.
Do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free? But what do we love? Certainly not the soil which we send helter-skelter downriver. Not the waters which function only to turn turbines, float barges and carry off sewage. Not plants, which we exterminate whole communities of without batting an eye. Not animals of which we have already exterminated many of the largest and most beautiful species.
A Land Ethic cannot prevent the ? and ? of these “resources” but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and at least in spots their continued existence in a natural state.”
alteration and use
