Environmental ethics - Stott
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 21-05-17 10:43
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- Stott's Four main areas of environmental issues
- 1. Damaged Ozone
- 1. Global Warming
- 2. Greenhouse gases
- 3. Icecaps melting
- 4. Extreme weather
- 2. Resources depletion
- 1. Deforestation
- 2. Fossil fuels
- 3. Mining
- Overfishing
- 3. Population Growth
- 1. Extinction
- 2. Overpopulation
- 3. Displacement of people
- 4. Runaway technology
- 1. Nuclear technology
- 2. Industrialisation/industrial revolution
- Pros
- Recognition of root cause
- Cons
- Narrow categorisation
- Doesn't include animals
- Reference to weather
- Difficulty to categorise or identify complicated problems with headings
- Overlap of issues (e.g. Runaway Technology can lead to Damaged Ozone)
- Human centred (anthropocentric) - link to Shallow Ecology
- We have to infer 'blame'/responsibility
- Human priority - all issues affect them
- 1. Damaged Ozone
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