ENVR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Centrism, Climate Justice, Nuclear Proliferation
7 Feb 2018
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Key concepts: value theories, solow"s sustainability paradox, critiques of mainstream environmentalism and wilderness preservation, strong versus weak sustainability, climate justice, environmental justice. Values: nihilism: nothing has any intrinsic value, egoism: i have intrinsic value. No other humans have any value, except possibly instrumental value for promoting my good: anthropocentrism: all humans have intrinsic value. All other animals have only instrumental value for humans, or no value at all: zoo centrism: all animals copy, nihilism copy. I am the only thing that matters, you only have value when it is related to me. Anthropocentrism: humans are removed from the circle of life and put in the center. Cosmic universalism: the awe human should have for everything on earth. Values: ecocentrism: all organisms, species, and ecosystems have irreducible intrinsic copy. Value questions: humans have moral duties and obligations to plants and trees.
