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    - Environmental ethics examines humans' moral relationship with the biotic and abiotic environment, emerging in the 1960s-70s due to concerns over industrial and population growth's environmental impacts. - It questions human superiority over other species and investigates assigning intrinsic value to nature beyond instrumental human-centered value. - There are three main types of environmental ethics: anthropocentrism prioritizes human interests; biocentrism grants all life equal moral standing; and ecocentrism views nature as intrinsically valuable beyond human benefits.

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    - Environmental ethics examines humans' moral relationship with the biotic and abiotic environment, emerging in the 1960s-70s due to concerns over industrial and population growth's environmental impacts. - It questions human superiority over other species and investigates assigning intrinsic value to nature beyond instrumental human-centered value. - There are three main types of environmental ethics: anthropocentrism prioritizes human interests; biocentrism grants all life equal moral standing; and ecocentrism views nature as intrinsically valuable beyond human benefits.

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    - Environmental ethics examines humans' moral relationship with the biotic and abiotic environment, emerging in the 1960s-70s due to concerns over industrial and population growth's environmental impacts. - It questions human superiority over other species and investigates assigning intrinsic value to nature beyond instrumental human-centered value. - There are three main types of environmental ethics: anthropocentrism prioritizes human interests; biocentrism grants all life equal moral standing; and ecocentrism views nature as intrinsically valuable beyond human benefits.

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    ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

    Environmental ethics can be defined as the philosophy that studies humans and their moral
    relationship between abiotic and abiotic aspects of the environment. environmental ethics really
    started to develop in the 1960s and 70s this was because of increasing awareness of industrial
    growth, economic growth, and population growth and the effect it had on the environment.

    - When environmental ethics emerged as a new philosophy it questioned the assumed moral
    superiority of human beings to members of other species on earth
    - it also investigated the possibility of assigning value to the natural environment and its
    non-human components.

    2 pressing global environmental problems: climate change and biodiversity loss

    two factors that play into contrasting beliefs of environmental ethics are intrinsic value and
    instrumental value.

    Intrinsic value: is the value that an entity has in itself for what it is like friendship or love many
    people value species and ecosystems intrinsically for their complexity diversity spiritual significance
    wildness beauty or wondrousness. This is a kind of end goal which are accomplished through
    instrumental values.

    instrumental value: Instrumental values are not an end goal, but rather provide the means by
    which an end goal is accomplished, and it is always conditional. a good example of something that
    would have intrinsic value would be money physically is just a piece of paper but when you add
    instrumental value to it becomes a major social and economic tool.

    Three Main Types of Environmental Ethics:


    Anthropocentrism: it is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity in
    the universe. The term can be used interchangeably with humanocentrism, and some refer to the
    concept as human supremacy or human exceptionalism. It says that human life holds an intrinsic
    value while other entities like animals, plants, mineral resources can be exploited to serve humans
    as they only hold instrumental value which is to benefit humans. What would an anthropocentric
    person do about climate change? They will take actions such as increasing taxes on fuel and petrol
    and industries so that it doesn’t harm Humans in the future. (Human centred approach)

    Biocentrism: it is an ethical belief that all livings things should have an equal right to live and hold
    equal moral standing as humans. What would an anthropocentric person do about climate
    change? They would suggest to not travel through vehicles that emit a lot of fuel since they are
    causing climate change that is endangering the animals etc. (Living organisms centred)

    Ecocentrism: it puts nature and ecology in the center of everything not because eco-system is
    beneficial for humans but because of the intrinsic value of it. What would an ecocentric person do
    about climate change? They would suggest closing down factories since they are effecting the
    environment (rivers, climate, ecosystems, earth) as a whole. (Ecosystem centric).

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