Environmental Ethics

A connection between ethics and aesthetics in architecture seems improbable.

A man who shoots his dog because it is no longer capable of service does not fail in his duty to the dog.

A range of alternative species concepts have been proposed.

A wider consequentialist approach may be more compatible with environmental ethics than utilitarian ethics.

A yet-to-be-formed collective has a duty, as a group, to prevent harm or wrong

Agents have negative second-order responsibilities not to thwart or undermine initiatives to tackle climate change

Agriculture is the foundation of the country and cannot be neglected.

All natural things, events, and states of affairs possess intrinsic value

An individual member of the biotic community ought to be sacrificed when doing so is necessary to protect the holistic good of the biotic community

Animal sacrifice is unjust and incompatible with holiness.

Anthropocentric privileging of members of the species Homo sapiens is morally unjustifiable.

As wilderness becomes increasingly rare, the chance of human lives and values being transformed through interactions with nature is reduced

Biological reserves should be as large as possible

Callicott's land-ethical holism implies that human individuals may be sacrificed for the holistic biotic good

Cephalopods (such as octopus, squid, and cuttlefish) experience pain among invertebrates

Clean air is not a participatory good in the strict sense

Climate change research is vulnerable to challenge from opponents of limiting fossil fuel use

Climate justice frameworks should focus on protecting and promoting human interests rather than on distributing emissions.

Consideration of values in science should not be limited to harmful consequences

Current generations do have duties of climate justice to future people, even given the Non-Identity Problem

Dealing with older things helps us realize our closest connections with the natural environment

Diversity must mean more than species richness

Ethical and aesthetic problems in architectural design need not arise simultaneously nor be resolved simultaneously.

Ethical and aesthetic values in architecture should be uncoupled in case they conflict.

Ethical concerns about new media should include protecting the public sphere from excessive intrusion of the private, not only protecting the private domain from public exposure.

Ethics of care approaches to globalization have both theoretical and practical dimensions.

Exposure to nature can transform a person's preferences, tastes, and values

Firms should ameliorate serious problems such as poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.

From the perspective of virtue ethics, kindness and loyalty are moral reasons sufficient to justify helping a friend in hardship

Fungi may be beyond the scope of a universal species concept.