Ecological Ethics An Introduction

Name: Ecological Ethics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780745651262

ISBN-10: 0745651267

ISBN-13: 9780745651262

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Patrick Curry

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In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics. He discusses light green or anthropocentric ethics with the examples of stewardship, lifeboat ethics, and social ecology; the mid-green or intermediate ethics of animal liberation/rights; and dark or deep green ecocentric ethics. Particular attention is given to the Land Ethic, the Gaia Hypothesis and Deep Ecology and its offshoots: Deep Green…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 8/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction


This Book


An Initial Example


Looking Ahead


Value and Nature


Ethics and Grub


What’s New?


Transparency and Responsibility



The Earth in Crisis


The Signs


Analysing Ecocrisis


Science and Technology



Ethics


What is Ethics?


Realism vs. Relativism


The Naturalistic Fallacy


Religious Ethics


Secular Ethics



Three Schools of Ethics


Deontology (‘Rights’)


Consequentialism (‘Effects’)


Virtue Ethics


A Green Virtue Ethic



Value


Some Issues


Anthropocentrism


Ecocentrism



Light Green or Shallow (Anthropocentric) Ethics


What is a Light Green Ethic?


Environmentalism


Lifeboat Ethics



Mid-Green or Intermediate Ethics


Animal Liberation


Animal Rights


Biocentrism


Animals and Us


Wild Animals


Domestic Animals


On (Not) Eating Animals: the Options



Dark Green or Deep (Ecocentric) Ethics


A Suggested Deï¿½nition


The Land Ethic


Gaia Theory


Deep Ecology


Deep Green Theory


Left Biocentrism


Ecocentrism and the Left


The Earth Manifesto



Ecofeminism



Deep Green Ethics as Post-Secular


Dogmatic Secularism


An Ecocentric Spirituality


Animism


Green Buddhism?



Moral Pluralism and Pragmatism


The Poverty of Monism


The Consequences of Pluralism


Multicentrism



Green Citizenship and Education


Making it Real


A Long Revolution?


Ecological Education


Traditional Ecological Knowledge


Ecological Republicanism


A Note on Wisdom



Grounding Ecological Ethics


The Food System


On Malthus


Climate Change


Wind Power and Energy


Nuclear Energy


Geo-engineering


Carbon Trading and Ecosystem Services: the New Gods of the Market


Sustainability


The Limits to Growth


A Left Ecocentric Guide to Capitalism


Alternatives


Movements in the Right Direction



Human Overpopulation


The Problem


Analysing Overpopulation


Taking on the Arguments about Overpopulation


Climate Change Again


Overpopulation and Ecocentrism



Postscript


Notes


References


Index