An example of how the illegal destruction of protected woodland within Granny Kettle Wood is now being used as a case study within schools all over the world.

1. Margherita Bernardi

2. 
An investigation into two moral
cases involving deforestation
Granny Kettle
Wood, Sunningdale, UK
Bosawas Biosphere
Reserve, Nicaragua.

3. 
 Granny Kettle Wood, in Sunningdale, comprises
more than 40 acres of woodland and is a wildlife
place, loved by the local community .
 Illegal clear felling of one acre of protected woodland
took place in May 2012.
 A petition is being conducted in order to ask the
authorities to prosecute this deforestation.
 Disagreeing with each other, protectors and
destructors seem to apply different moral arguments
to justify their position.
GRANNY KETTLE
WOOD, THE
DEFORESTATION.

4. 
 ‘’To what extent is it ethical and reasonable to exploit
the planet's protected forests and woods by
deforesting them for personal gain?’’
 Before answering the question, it is important to
clarify the concept of ethical and reasonable.
KNOWLEDGE ISSUE

5. 
 Ethics is the moral principle governing or influencing
conduct. In TOK it is the branch of knowledge
concerned with moral principles.
 Reasonable is the ability of the mind to
think, understand and judge logically, considering
what is right, practical, or possible.
ETHICAL & REASONABLE

6. 
 Ethical actions should be judged in an impartial way,
thinking objectively and without making exception
for particular cases.
 Agreeing with Kant, the action questioned as a
knowledge issue is not ethical, because it is done
expecting something in return.
 A preferential treatment is the main focus of the cause,
and this is completely against Kant’s philosophy.
KANT’S THEORY

7. 
 Kant’s approach on ethic by reason has some
limitations:
 It creates a ‘’rule worship’’
 It creates a conflict of duty
On the other hand

8. 
 Mill sustained that the only thing that is good in
itself is happiness.
 His theory is simple and rational.
 According to his theory, the deforestation is right if it
produces a pleasure for the person who does it.
MILL’S UTILITARIANISM
THEORY.

9. 
 It is not possible to measure pleasure.
 Two different actions contrast themselves by
producing different kind of pleasures.
On the other hand

10. 
 Extending over 2,000,000 km², Bosawas Biosphere
Reserve protects the second-largest rainforest area in
the Western Hemisphere.
 Woodcutters destroy thirty thousand acres of forest
per year.
ANOTHER REAL LIFE SITUATION
Woodcutters in Bosawas Biosphere Reserve

11. 
 This situation can de justified under the thought of Mill
 The economic returns make woodcutters richer and
happier
 Kant thought is against this situation
 A preferential treatment is created
KANT & MILL

12. 
KANT:
 Deforestation is not ethical because it is done in order
to have a personal gain.  Not reasonable
MILL:
 Deforestation is ethical because it is done in order to
create happiness.  Reasonable
ETHICAL & REASONABLE
(Bosawas Biosphere Reserve )

13. 
 Granny Kettle Wood
 Personal happiness
 Preferential treatment
 Neither ethical nor reasonable according to Kant
 Ethical and reasonable according to Mill
 Bosawas Biosphere Reserve
 Personal happiness
 Preferential treatment
 Neither ethical nor reasonable according to Kant
 Ethical and reasonable according to Mill
GRANNY KETTLE WOOD &
BOSAWAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE

14. 
 The cases are closely related
 The cases are both unethical and not reasonable
according to Kant
 The cases are both ethical and reasonable according
to Mill
COMPARING THE CASES
AND CONCLUSION

15. 
 Both cases are not ethical.
 When personal happiness is the first objective and
other impacts are not considered, the action cannot
be justifiable or reasonable
 Personal interests are less important than the
general impacts
MY OPINION

16. 
 http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/royal-
borough-of-windsor-and-maidenhead-prosecute-those-
responsible-for-illegal-destruction-of-protected-
woodland?utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&ut
m_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition
 http://tinyurl.com/blacknest
 http://www.greenenergyjournal.it/index.php/42-
notizie-green/701-deforestazione-illegale-bosawas-sta-
scomparendo#.UahDQpj6Cbk
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