Environmental Ethics

I recently learned a couple different environmental ethics and I wanted to share with you the ones I agree with. These will be described through bullet points, so without further ado here they are:

Land Ethics

• We must move beyond conservation that is based on nature's economic value
• We need to acknowledge the interdependent functioning of nature as a whole community
• The land ethic doesn't preclude using resources, but rather affirms their right to continued existence
• Means that we must change human from land conqueror to a member of the land
• Biocentric: All life forms are equally valuable
• Develops on an ecological conscience
• We need to change what's included in education to promote land obligations over self-interest

Deep Ecology

• This is a bio-spheric egalitarianism view point
• All living things have their own rights and intrinsic value that is independent of their usefulness to others
• All living things are all connected within a web, and humans are not at the top of a pyramid
• Requires self realization
• Implies simple living and non-aggression

Eco-feminism

• This identifies the connections between domination of nature and the exploitation of women
• Ethical practices must be contextual, and include voices of people in different historical and cultural circumstances
• Being inclusive to all guides to a "better bias" towards environmental policies

Social Ecology

• We need to include social elements in environmental discussions
• Environmental issues rooted in social structures can't easily be resolved without dealing with social problems in society
• The planet thus far has bee reduced to a resource for exploitation under capitalism

Environmental Pragmatism

• Discrediting one ethic over another is counterproduuctive
• We need to develop inclusive environmental ethics
• The need to draw on all frame works to move forward in the future

I didn't include other environmental ethics, mainly because I don't agree with them but some I excluded were: John Locke's ideas, Gifford Pinchot's conservation, John Muir's preservation, and Conventional Western Environmental ethics.