ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Precautionary Principle, Bioregionalism, Environmental Good
1 May 2015
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Promotes common/communitarian values; village, community ethics and rules. Environmental good as expressed in various main religions. Aldo leopold: extension of human rights into the animal, plant, worlds. Animal rights came about; need to minimize animal suffering because suffering is suffering. Human rights we redefined to include rights to clean the environment. Environmental efficiency: minimizing waste: precautionary principle and need for sustainability. People wanted to preserve the environment for human benefit. Belief that the environment suffers because of unjust human systems. Invented by arne naess: belief in need for fundamental transformation of human relationships with. Shallow ecology: transpersonal ecology: psychological transcending of self, earth first: anarchist/libertarian (it becomes occasionally violent, bioregionalism: place based environmental ethics, biocentrism/gaia-centrism/eco-centrism: bio based ethics. View of nature as a resource to be exploited derived from worldview that exploits women. Categories of nature, culture, body, world need to be reconsidered. Ways of living not considered to be harmonious with laws of the universe (tao, dharma)
