What is environmental ethics?

What can influence us when making moral decisions?

• Conscience, values, upbringing.

• Time, money, energy.

• Empathy, intuition, experience.

• Religion, education, culture.

What is ethics?

• Ethics is a type of science fiction genre.

• Ethics is about the environment.

• Ethics is philosophy.

• Ethics is about morality that govern a person's behaviour. (Good, bad, right, wrong.)

What does intrinsic value mean?

• 1. Intrinsic value is when something is only important if it helps people.

• • Intrinsic value means something is valuable just because it exists, not because of what it can do for us.

• 1. Intrinsic value is when something is important because we can buy or sell it.

• 1. Intrinsic value is when something is important because it's rare or fancy.

What are some of the ways that we use trees and plants?

• Water, clothing, transportation
• Oxygen, food, shelter, medicine, raw materials
• Entertainment, education, sports
• Energy, technology, communication

What is a vegan?

• A vegan is someone who only eats meat.
• A vegan is someone who consumes all animal products.
• A vegan is someone who only eats dairy products.
• A vegan is someone who does not consume or use any animal products.

Anthropocentrism suggests that which organism is the most important?

What is biocentrism?

• 1. Biocentrism is when only humans are important, and everything else doesn't matter.

• • Biocentrism means believing that all living things, like plants and animals, are important and deserve respect.

• 1. Biocentrism is when only certain animals are important, like pets or wild animals.

• 1. Biocentrism is when only plants are important because they give us oxygen.

What is ecocentrism?

• • Ecocentrism means seeing nature as a big team where everything, like plants, animals, and even rocks and rivers, works together and needs to be taken care of.

• 1. Ecocentrism is when only the biggest animals, like elephants and whales, are important in nature.

• 1. Ecocentrism is when only pretty or colourful parts of nature, like flowers and butterflies, are important.

• • Ecocentrism is when only humans are important in nature, and everything else doesn't matter.

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What is environmental ethics?

• Environmental ethics is the study of ethical issues surrounding space exploration.
• Environmental ethics is the study of ethical issues surrounding medical research.
• Environmental ethics is the study of ethical issues surrounding human interactions with the environment.
• Environmental ethics is the study of ethical issues surrounding fashion trends.