Sentences with phrase «environmental ethics does»

We believe that a reason for the ineffectiveness of an information - based approach is that the context of pet ownership in terms of environmental ethics does not necessarily shift due to new information provided in what may turn towards an antagonistic debate.

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Jenkins proposes to supersede the common argument in environmental ethics between those whose emphasis is on human welfare («anthropocentrism») and those concerned to give the natural world independent moral standing («non-anthropocentrism» he usually calls it, though «ecocentrism» or «biocentrism» will do).

«They assume that most of the time [a human test] is going to work out in their favor, and if it doesn't, they can stop the study,» says Richard Wiles, a senior vice president of the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., which has challenged the ethics of human testing.

Few students enter Common Ground with a strong environmental ethic or a thirst for interdisciplinary study — or a deep desire to do farm chores in the dead of winter.

Fact # 4: Although Commissioner Esty, the head of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, had an ethics ruling saying that he did not have any «legal» conflict of interest; he announced that he felt, as commissioner, he had an obligation to meet a higher standard, that being to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatology.

There is a huge need to do «applied» climate change ethics as most ethical analysis in the academy on environmental issues has not engaged policy - makers or the general public.

Despite Garvey's claims that there is more to understanding climate change than the «science», without the «science» narrating the apocalyptic story driving environmental ethics, there is nothing for the moral philosopher to consider; it is «unethical» not to «do something» to «combat climate change».

We really wanted to emphasize the complicated interconnections among politics, health, social justice, ethics, and environmental impact in food systems, while still looking at how we contribute to and what we can do to change these systems.