ENVS195 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Intergenerational Equity, Ecosystem Services, United Nations General Assembly
18 Mar 2016
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Water ethics: context (chapter 11 in the textbook) World"s human populaion tripled during the 20th century. In many places, current consumpion levels cannot be maintained from exising sources with present eiciencies. Nearly 900 million people (one in seven people) adequate access to potable water. 2. 6 billion people do not have adequate sanitaion. Water-related diseases are leading contributors to illness and death, paricularly in the less developed countries. 1. 5 million children under 5 years old die annually from water-related illnesses. A set or system of moral principles or values that guides the acions or decisions of an individual or group. Helps determine acceptable conduct in a society and provides a basis for judging how to act rightly or justly. For water issues, any saisfactory ethic must extend beyond human relaionships at the individual level. It must involve obligaions: among communiies and naions, between humans and non-human species and ecosystems and, between us today and the generaions to come.
