Philosophy › Section J · Applied ethics › Topic J.2
Environmental ethics
Most moral theories were built for dealings between living humans. Environmental ethics asks whether animals, forests, species and people not yet born also have claims on us, and how the costs of protecting them should be shared.
In this topic
- Widening the circle
- Human-centred value and its critics
- Animals
- Biocentrism and ecocentrism
- Deep ecology and social ecology
- Worked example: the marsh, four ways
- Environmental justice
- Climate change as an ethical problem
- Distant and future people
- Worked example: one holiday flight
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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