ENWC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Venison, Anthropocentrism, Environmental Ethics

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Mc Carthy Kyle

Document Summary

The human population is exponetionally increasing every year, to the point where by 2048, there will be 9 billion people. Values: increasingly there is a balance between, economic considerations, political considerations, ethical considerations, there are two types of values, both are ethics about our natural world, instrumental/utilitarian a. i. Not mutually exclusive: instrumental/utilitarian, goods-direct products we get from our natural resources/ecosystem (i. e. venison, timber, services-eco-system services (i. e. pollination, wetlands clean our water) c. Where did we get out ethics: family, religion, culture, friends. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth on earth . Leopold"s land ethic- ecocentric: the next step in the evolution of ethics, a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, and beauty of the biotic community.