ENVIRONMENTAL

ETHICS
• Environmental Ethics

- A branch of applied philosophy that studies the conceptual

foundation of environmental values to protect and sustain
biodiversity and ecological system.
- is a new sub-discipline of Philosophy that deals with the
ethics problems surrounding environmental protection. It
aims to provide ethics justification , more motivation for
the cause of global environmental protection.
3 BASIC PAIRS OF ETHICAL PRINCIPLES:

1) Justice and Sustainability

2) Sufficiency and Compassion

3) Solidarity and Participation

1) Justice and Sustainability

> Equals should be treated equally unless there is sufficient

reason to treat anyone unequally. It is relevant in the field
of ethics called Environmental Justice.
Environmental Justice - concerned with the inequitable
access to environmental resources (clean food,
air and water) and the injustice of greater pollution
that often characterize lower income communities.
> Sustainability extends justice into the future.
> Meeting the needs of the present generation without
compromising the ability of the future generation to meet
their own needs.
> The ethical principle of justice is there’s a need to
equitably balance the needs of the present generation
with future generation.
2) Sufficiency and Compassion

> All forms of life are entitled to enough goods to live on.
> No one should waste or hoard resources intended for the
sufficiency of all.
> Think whom to consider and whom you have moral
values. Practice empathy.
> Compassion extends the notion of sufficiency to
the earth.
> Environmental Ethics asserts that animals,
Plants and the elements (water, soil and
air)
are morally significant.
> Ecologist also assert the non-human forms
of life have moral significant equivalent to
humans.
> Humans are of greater moral significance.
3) Solidarity and Participation

> Recognize that you are part of a family; biological

local or national community.
> Reflects concern for the well being of others.
> extends the idea of solidarity to make it practical. The
demands of solidarity points us to the principle of
participation.
> The ethical principle of participation requires us to
recognize all of the parties humans and non humans.