PHIL 1180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Energy Transfer Partners, Virtue Ethics, Device Paradigm
8 Dec 2016
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Ucsc researchers rise in mosquito population due to urbanization and no more use of ddt habitat destruction increases mosquito population. Wind turbine syndrome has psychological e ects on people causes depression. Ethics of mitigation (mitigation is ethically preferable to adaptation and compensation) Informal use has become enormously popular. used to refer to high levels of human impacts on the environment that are pervasive and long lasting. short hand for referring to large scale human impacts on the environment. Being explored by geological scientist. whether or not we have entered a new geological period of the earths history. period de ned by human impacts on the environment. Backup plan geoengineering is a second choice/backup plant lifeboat ethic arguments against. argument against lifeboat analogy strategy that harden proposes won"t reduce fertility rates moral luck, Device paradigm we didn"t talk about it won"t be on exam technologies displace meaningful human activities identi cation ethical consideration of environment begins with identi cation.
