ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

PRESENTED BY SUJITH.K.P S3 MBA NO 44

 Ethics : The Principles of behavior that conduct

governing an individual or a group has about what is right & wrong or good & bad.

Environment Ethics: Study of the ethical basis of

environment or discussion of the ethical basis of environmental protection.

LEVELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

DESCRIPTIVE

Consists of accounts of what people and their cultures should do and value
NORMATIVE

Deals with the questions of right or wrong, duties and rights, justice and injustice, virtue and wickedness and so forth. Recommendations are also made as to the morally best course of action or conduct.
CRITICAL

Concerned with the meanings of ethical concepts with the justification of normative claims.

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

PRINCIPLE OF NATURALISM

Man is a natural species, evolving from and sustained by a complex and functioning ecosystem.
PRINCIPLE OF AGENCY

Man has the ability to use language, acquire knowledge, imagine alternative futures, use abstract reasoning,a ct according to rules, recognize the personhood of others, and to realize other capacities.
PRINCIPLE OF HOLISM

The ecosystem is a systemic whole, of which human beings are a part. Accordingly, the whole informs the parts: The ecosystem, and mankinds place and responsibility within, is best understood from the perspective of the whole.

Why need to study Environmental Ethics?

To overcome the following questions. 1. What are the environment damage produce by the present generation?
2.

What values must be give up to slow such damage?

Environmental Damage
1) Pollution:

Air pollution Water pollution Land pollution

2) Resource depletion: Depletion of Species & Habits

Depletion of Fossil fuels etc..

The Ethical Values for Pollution Control

We should recognize our moral duty to protect the welfare not only a human beings, but also of other nonhuman parts of this system. Usefulness of non-human world for human purposes. Humans have no rights to reduce this richness & diversity expect to satisfy vital needs. The ideological changes is mainly that of appreciating life quality, rather than to increase higher standard of living. How much of the environment damages caused by several polluters should be counted as damage to my property .

Ethical Values for Conserving depletable resources

Development that meets the needs of the present with comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Proper utilisation of resources i.e. the people should maintain Ecological balance. We should adopt voluntary measures to conserve the resources. If we are to preserve enough scarce resources, so that future generation can maintain their quality of life at a satisfactory level. Human have altered the natural system of the earth.

Environmental Ethics Principles

We should have profound respect for nature.

We must maintain a harmonious relation with other

species. Everyone should take responsibility for this impact on nature. Local & indigenous environmental knowledge should be respected. We must plan for the long term.

Conclusion
We should follow the Environmental Ethical Values

for our Welfare of the environment. We are only the responsible for Environment damage. We should love & respect the human as well as non human beings.