Environmental
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- Created on: 27-05-15 10:49
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- Environmental
- Ecoholism
- Humans are not the most important
- The believe that all ecosystems and living things are dependant
- Lovelock
- Looking at the earth from space you see a self regulating system
- Created the Gaia hypothesis
- Human life could be wiped out but Gaia would survive
- If we abuse Gaia we risk our own lives as Gaia owes us nothing
- Deep ecology
- All life forms have intrinsic value
- Aldo Leopold
- "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty or the bionic community"
- Aarne Naess
- Put forward the word ecosophy
- Ecological philosophy
- "Every being whether human, animal or vegetable has a right to live and blossom"
- Deep ecology platform
- 4. Humans impact is excessive
- 3. Humans have no right to reduce richness and diversity
- 5. Human population and lifestyles are key to this impact
- 2. Richness and diversity contribute to well being
- 6. The diversity of life can only flourish with reduced human impact
- 1. All life has value
- 7. Political, technological and economic factors must be changed
- 8. If we accept all these points we are obliged to change
- He said we should...
- Abandon all capitalist aims
- Dramatically reduce the earths population
- Conserve diversity of species
- Live in small self sufficient communities
- "Touch the earth lightly"
- Put forward the word ecosophy
- Shallow ecology
- When you think the environment has worth but only be official to humans
- Anthropocentric
- Puts humans at the start
- Environmental damage can be accepted if it being it's humans
- Michael la Boissiere
- It is okay for animals to become extinct
- We have no obligation to prevent extinction
- Religious views
- Stewardship
- We have a sense of responsibility but we don't have dominion over everything
- Adolpho Masteranti
- We have a duty to be courteous, tolerant, humble, just and in awe of the creation that God has entrusted to us.
- Humans are co-creators with God and need to use the world with care
- Creation spirituality
- St Francis of Assici
- God can be seen and found in all creation
- All creatures have the ability and the duty to worship God
- In the Bible God seems to value the natural world
- St Francis of Assici
- Consequence of sin
- The original sin has had a consequence on the relationship between God and humankind
- To rectify this we should follow stewardship
- The fall is seen as the reason for our environmental problems
- Rapture
- Those who believe in end time feel that the concern for the earth is irrelevant as there will be no future
- Destruction of the earth is welcomed as it is a sign of the coming of the apocolypse
- Stewardship
- Utilitarianism
- Weigh up long term harm against short term gain
- Preference utilitarianism would focus on the current generation and what is best for them
- How would you calculate the needs of the future?
- What sort of environment is required to maximise the quality of life?
- Mill - appreciation of nature is a higher pleasere
- Bentham enjoyed nature
- Kant
- Cruelty to animals is irrational
- Nature should not be exploited
- Nature should not be treated as a means to an end
- We shouldn't exploit the environment for financial gain
- A person likely to beat a dog is likely to beat a person
- The natural world is logical and purposeful, humans fit into this
- Virtue ethics
- Virtue ethics is a human centred approach
- Character traits are important e.g. care, respect for creatures
- Sustainability is a fundamental goal but this is self-motivated so could be selfish
- It is very hard to apply to the environment
- Ecoholism
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