Environmental ethics examines the moral relationship between humans and the environment. It believes humans are part of both society and the natural world of plants, animals, and ecosystems. There are three main branches: anthropocentrism views humans as having authority over nature, biocentrism grants moral status to all life, and ecocentrism values nature itself. Environmental ethics helps make people aware of destructive human impacts and teaches respect for diverse life forms. It is concerned with responsible conduct regarding nature and natural resources.

1. Environmental
Ethics

2. What is environmental ethics?
• Environmental ethics is a 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.
• Environmental ethics believe that humans are a part of society as well
as other living creatures, which includes plants and animals. These
items are a very important part of the world and are considered to
be a functional part of human life.

3. Do you know?
• Suppose putting out natural fires, culling feral animals or destroying
some individual members of overpopulated indigenous species is
necessary for the protection of the integrity of a certain ecosystem.
Will these actions be morally permissible or even required?

4. No its morally incorrect.............
• It is often said to be morally wrong for human beings to pollute and
destroy parts of the natural environment and to consume a huge
proportion of the planet’s natural resources, because natural
resources are beneficial for human beings.
• The “shallow ecology movement”, as Næss (1973) calls it, is the
“fight against pollution and resource depletion”, the central objective
of which is “the health and affluence of people in the developed
countries.” The “deep ecology movement”, in contrast, endorses
“biospheric egalitarianism”, the view that all living things are alike in
having value in their own right, independent of their usefulness to
others.

5. Natural resources
are materials
and energy
sources found in
nature that
humans need to
survive.

6.  Branches of
environmental ethics:
It is splitted into three different
schools of desciplines.
a. Anthropocentrism
b. Biocentrism
c. Ecocentrism

7. Continue……………….
Anthropocentrism: A human
based ethnic arguing that human
possess complete authority over
decisions about the environment.
Biocentrism: It states: “extend
the status of moral object from
human beings to all living things
in nature.” ... All living organisms
pursue their own "good" in their
own ways. Human beings are not
inherently superior to other living
things.
Ecocentrism: A term used in
ecological political philosophy
to denote a nature-centred, as
opposed to human-centred,
system of values.

8. Relationship between Environmental
Ethics and Environmental Science:
• The relationship between environmental ethics and the environmental sciences,
however, is a complex and often contested one.
• For example, debates over whether ecologists and conservation biologists should also be
advocates for environmental protection — a role that goes beyond the traditional
profile of the "objective" scientist — have received much attention in these fields.
• Likewise, we will see that issues such as the place of animal welfare concerns in
wildlife management, the valuation and control of non-native species, and the
adoption of a more interventionist approach to conservation and ecological protection
(including proposals to relocate wild species and to geo engineer earth systems to
avoid the worst effects of global climate change) frequently divide environmental
scientists and conservationists.
• This split often has as much to do with different ethical convictions and values
regarding our responsibility to species and ecosystems as it does with scientific
disagreements over the interpretation of data or the predicted outcomes of societal
actions and policies.

9. Importance of Environmental Ethics:
• Make us aware of indescriminate and destructive human
activities.
• Inculcate moral values towards nature and learn to respect
various life forms through environmental ethics.
• Concerned with the issues of responsible personal conduct
with respect to natural landscape, resources, species and
non-human organisms
• Conduct with respect to person is, of course, the direct
concern of modern philosophy.

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