Environmental Ethics : Learning, Questioning and Correcting Old and New Paths

Introduction One of the first lectures of this year described the complex idea of environmental ethics in a very simple way, by demonstrating how life was before environmental ethics it was clear to deduce that environmental ethics indeed does "involve the development of a new set of values in a world which is deeply anthropocentric. " Human practices have evolved, however, not in a very egalitarian manor over time. Values have relied heavily on human practice …

…by changing their life-styles. A holistic approach would demand for corporations to give way to much smaller, locally-based units of production motivated by ecological sustainability and economic self-reliance. This structural adjustment would then appropriately demand as eco-feminists that men change their identity and become more women-like and less macho, and they would have to care for the sick and the elderly as much as women, so that they would have less time for war games.