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What is meant by environmental ethics?
Explain the concept of environmental ethics.
Solution
- Environmental ethics requires individuals to be conscious of environmental degradation and actively protect and promote the environment.
- Environmental ethics is a discipline of philosophy that investigates the moral link between humans and the environment, as well as the value and moral position of the environment and its non-human species.
- We have a moral duty to conserve limited natural resources because future generations have an equal right to these resources.
- Environmental ethics and values can be developed in children by parents, teachers and social activists.
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