Environmental Ethics 

About: Environmental Ethics is an academic journal published by Philosophy Documentation Center. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Ecology (disciplines) & Environmental philosophy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0163-4275. Over the lifetime, 1228 publications have been published receiving 28415 citations.

The Case for Animal Rights

Abstract: There are, I know, people who profess to believe in animal rights but do not avow these goals. Factory farming, they say, is wrong—it violates animals’ rights—but traditional animal agriculture is all right. Toxicity tests of cosmetics on animals violates their rights, but important medical research—cancer research, for example—does not. The clubbing of baby seals is abhorrent, but not the harvesting of adult seals. I used to think I understood this reasoning. Not any more. You don’t change unjust institutions by tidying them up.

Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Perservation: A Third World Critique

Abstract: This chapter presents a Third World critique of the trend in American environmentalism known as deep ecology, analyzing each of deep ecology’s central tenets. These are the distinction between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, the focus on wilderness preservation, the invocation of Eastern traditions, and the belief that it represents the most radical trend within environmentalism. The chapter argues that the anthropocentrism/biocentrism distinction is of little use in understanding the dynamics of environmental degredation, that the implementation of the wilderness agenda is causing serious deprivation in the Third World. It outlines the environmental movement in India, a country with an ecological diversity comparable to the US, but with a radically dissimilar cultural and social history. The chapter concludes that despite its claims to universality, deep ecology is firmly rooted in American environmental and cultural history and is inappropriate when applied to the Third World.