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What is environmental ethics? Why do we need a set of ethics for environment? in about 150 words​

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Answered by mittaldeepalilokesh
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Environmental Ethics

Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non-human contents. This entry covers: (1) the challenge of environmental ethics to the anthropocentrism (i.e., human-centeredness) embedded in traditional western ethical thinking; (2) the early development of the discipline in the 1960s and 1970s; (3) the connection of deep ecology, feminist environmental ethics, animism and social ecology to politics; (4) the attempt to apply traditional ethical theories, including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, to support contemporary environmental concerns; (5) the preservation of biodiversity as an ethical goal; (6) the broader concerns of some thinkers with wilderness, the built environment and the politics of poverty; (7) the ethics of sustainability and climate change, and (8) some directions for possible future developments of the discipline.

Answered by agrippa
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Environmental ethics

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  • The philosophical discipline that deals with the ethical and moral relationship between the human beings and the environment is called environmental ethics.
  • Environmental ethics is an important part of the environment studies it establishes relationship between the earth and humans. It ensures that we are doing our part to protect the environment and keep it safe.  
  • Sustainability and justice, compassion and sufficiency, participation and solidarity are the basic pairs of principle of environmental ethics.  

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