Environmental Ethics

This subfield deals with the moral responsibilities of businesses towards the environment, which includes issues such as pollution, resource depletion, and climate change.

What is environmental ethics and its impact on various disciplines?

- "Environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy... Ethics exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography."

What are the main paradigms in environmental ethics?

- "The main competing paradigms are anthropocentrism, physiocentrism (called ecocentrism as well), and theocentrism."

What questions arise when making ethical decisions regarding the environment?

- "These decisions raise numerous questions."

Should humans continue to clear cut forests for human consumption?

- "Should humans continue to clear cut forests for the sake of human consumption?"

Why should humans continue to propagate their species and life itself?

- "Why should humans continue to propagate its species, and life itself?"

Should humans continue to make gasoline-powered vehicles?

- "Should humans continue to make gasoline-powered vehicles?"

What environmental obligations do humans need to keep for future generations?

- "What environmental obligations do humans need to keep for future generations?"

Is it right for humans to knowingly cause the extinction of a species for human convenience?

- "Is it right for humans to knowingly cause the extinction of a species for the convenience of humanity?"

How should humans best use and conserve the space environment to secure and expand life?

- "How should humans best use and conserve the space environment to secure and expand life?"

What role can Planetary Boundaries play in reshaping the human-earth relationship?

- "What role can Planetary Boundaries play in reshaping the human-earth relationship?"

What were the key events and individuals that influenced the growth of environmental ethics?

- "The academic field of environmental ethics grew up in response to the works of Rachel Carson and Murray Bookchin and events such as the first Earth Day in 1970..."

Which papers had a crucial impact on the development of environmental ethics?

- "Two papers published in Science had a crucial impact: Lynn White's 'The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis'... and Garrett Hardin's 'The Tragedy of the Commons'..."

Which essay by Aldo Leopold addressed the philosophical roots of the ecological crisis?

- "An essay by Aldo Leopold in his A Sand County Almanac, called 'The Land Ethic,' in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical."

When did the first international academic journals in environmental ethics emerge?

- "The first international academic journals in this field emerged from North America in the late 1970s and early 1980s..."

What was the name and year of the US-based journal in environmental ethics?

- "The US-based journal Environmental Ethics in 1979..."

What was the name and year of the Canadian-based journal in environmental ethics?

- "The Canadian-based journal The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy in 1983."

When was the first British-based journal of environmental ethics launched?

- "The first British-based journal of this kind, Environmental Values, was launched in 1992."