Environmental Ethics

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Where this source is used

• Environmentalism names multiple ethical positions, movements, and political projects rather than one doctrine, organization, or policy program.

  • supports · introduction; sections 1 and 4

• Ecology and environmental science investigate relationships and conditions, while environmentalism makes ethical or political claims about what people and institutions should do.

  • supports · introduction, paragraphs 1–5; section 5

• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy treats sustainability and climate change as one area of environmental ethics alongside distinct questions about nonhuman moral standing, wilderness, built environments, poverty, and politics.

  • supports · introduction, paragraphs 1–2; sections 5–6

• A green party, environmental agency, protected area, pollution rule, or energy policy requires its own actors, design, operation, and outcomes; its label alone does not establish environmentalist purposes or effects.

  • context · sections 1–5