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Environmental Ethics

ETHICAL STATEMENTS

•ABOUT WHAT OUGHT TO BE
•NORMS OR PRESCRIPTIONS
•LOGICALLY DIFFERENT FROM STATEMENTS OF FACT (which can be shown to be true or false)

FOUR VARITIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS:

A. ANTHROPOCENTRIC: NONHUMAN WORLD HAS ONLY INSTRUMENTAL VALUE (value only as a means to human ends) 1. OBLIGATIONS TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN THE PRESENT
2. OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

B. NON-ANTHROPOCENTRIC: NONHUMAN WORLD HAS INTRINSIC VALUE (value in and of itself, or for its own ends)

3. OBLIGATIONS TO NONHUMAN ANIMALS
4. OBLIGATIONS TO ECOSYSTEMS