ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Environmental Ethics, Natural Capital
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Environmental manager: make difficult decisions that can conflict ethics. Double-crested cormorant: changing attitudes towards an environmental issue, victims of increases pesticides, laws caused too many birds eating bass. Environmental worldview: how you think the world works, your role and what is right/wrong (environmental ethics) Human centred: self-centred: anthropocentric: usefulness of ecosystem to us. Earth centred/ life centred: devoted to sustaining earth s natural system (ecosystems, biodiversity, biosphere: biocentric: independent to human usage. Instrumental / utilitarian value: form bc of their usefulness to us or biosphere. Preserve natural capital bc they sustain life (human centred) Intrinsic / inherent value: form bc it exists, regardless of value (earth centred) Planetary management worldview: we are the plants dominant species and should manage it our benefits (other species are instrumental value: utilitarianism) We do not run out of resources. Success depends on how we manage resources. Spaceship-earth worldview: see earth as home to take care of.
