Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT
Global change, driven by increasing levels of human population, growing consumption by the rich, and poor choices of technologies and social arrangements to supply that consumption, have generated a suite of environmental problems that threaten civilization. This in turn has brought to the fore a da...
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description | Global change, driven by increasing levels of human population, growing consumption by the rich, and poor choices of technologies and social arrangements to supply that consumption, have generated a suite of environmental problems that threaten civilization. This in turn has brought to the fore a daunting array of ethical issues that, sadly, are not being widely addressed. I sample some of these and discuss them in a way that hopefully will generate some of the needed discourse. |
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spelling | doaj.art-4eecc37e78fd48bcb998d37d78ad96a92022-12-22T04:09:33ZengInter-ResearchEthics in Science and Environmental Politics1863-54151611-80142014-10-01141111810.3354/esep00151Human impact: the ethics of I=PATPR Ehrlich0Stanford University, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, California 94305, USAGlobal change, driven by increasing levels of human population, growing consumption by the rich, and poor choices of technologies and social arrangements to supply that consumption, have generated a suite of environmental problems that threaten civilization. This in turn has brought to the fore a daunting array of ethical issues that, sadly, are not being widely addressed. I sample some of these and discuss them in a way that hopefully will generate some of the needed discourse.https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v14/n1/p11-18/ |
spellingShingle | PR Ehrlich Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics |
title | Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT |
title_full | Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT |
title_fullStr | Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT |
title_full_unstemmed | Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT |
title_short | Human impact: the ethics of I=PAT |
title_sort | human impact the ethics of i pat |
url | https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v14/n1/p11-18/ |
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