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Environmental Ethics
| Environmental ethics explores the moral values and ethical relationship between human beings and the environment in which they live. In sustainability projects, players ask: What do we want (if no barriers existed to our desires)? What do we know? What will we accept (given the situation)? Asking what we want and what we will accept always incorporates environmental ethics as it may be difficult to clearly and practically perceive one's desires and the future consequences of actions. The line between ethical and spiritual or religious judgment is not clear. |  |
| Keywords: moral values, ethics questions, ethics of resource consumption, extinction, future generations, stewardship, human rights, deep ecology, rights of biotic entities, conservation ethic, ecological interdependence, environmental utility, anthropocentrism, bioethics, environmental ethic, discrimination, utility value, existence value, option value, nonconsumptive use value, production value, ideals, praxis, practices, action, nonviolence, conscience, conscientious objector, ecoethics, earth values, earth respect, green values, earth appreciation, earth defense, long-term survival, consciousness | |
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Change In Actionworks to promote environmental ethics through research and advocacy in South Korea. | Community Awareness and Services for Ecological Concern is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government and service institution, whose aim is to enhance the people`s consciousness about the ecological situation in the Philippines. | Cairo Eco-Ethics International Union is part of an international network of organizations dedicated to promoting eco-ethics worldwide. |
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I read a quote of Aldo Leopold, who is awesome, that has stuck with me the past couple of days. He says, "we can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, love, understand, or otherwise have faith in."
Too true! That quote begs the question we must ask within ourselves and that is "what in nature, if anything, do we see, feel, love, understand, or have faith in."
Peace,
Wolfmarch