Environmental ethics

What is the definition of Environmental Ethics?

• It's the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.

• It's the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles

• It protects the environment from harmful human activities.

• It prescribes correct actions of humans toward other species and

  toward the earth as a whole.

  
  

What does biocentrism stand for?

• It concentrates holistically on populations, ecosystems, living organisms, and non-living organisms

  (mountains, wilderness, wetlands, rivers, and so forth).

• It maintains that humans are the only species who have

  moral standing and to whom we have moral responsibilities.

• It maintains that all

  living organisms, including plants and animals, have moral standing and that humans have a

  moral responsibility to protect them.

In _______________, environmental decisions

tend to factor in the needs and concerns of present human beings, including some

considerations for future humans.

 What was Baxter's ethical perspective on environmental concerns?

• Anthropocentric

• Biocentric

• Ecocentric

Who argued that humans' duties towards nature require a shift of emphasis from what is good for human beings to what is good for every living organism involved or affected by a particular action?

• Baxter

• Taylor

• De Silva

• Tucker

It looks for the real origins of environmental problems and not just their surface impact.

• Deep ecology

• Shallow ecology

• Anthropocentrism

_______ ecology holds the idea that the protection and conservation of the environment should only be practised when beneficial to humans.

 How does the article characterize the shift in environmental debates over time?

• The academic field of environmental ethics grew up in response to the works of Rachel Carson and Murray Bookchin and events such as the first Earth Day in 1970.

• It emerged during the early 1970s, when environmentalists started urging philosophers to consider the philosophical aspects of environmental problems.

•  It characterizes the shift in environmental debates from questioning whether environmental issues are happening to emphasizing the urgency of taking actions to reverse environmental problems.