Ecological ethics an introduction - Curry, Patrick, 1951- (Cambridge, U.K. Malden, M.A. Polity Press, 2011)
Introduction: This book ; An initial example ; Looking ahead ; Value and nature ; Ethics and grub ; What's new? ; Transparency and responsibility -- The earth in crisis: The signs ; Analysing ecocrisis ; Science and technology -- Ethics: What is ethics? ; Realism vs. relativism ; The naturalistic fallacy ; Religious ethics ; Secular ethics -- Three schools of ethics: Deontology ('rights') ; Consequentialism ('effects') ; Virtue ethics ; A green virtue ethic -- Value: Some issues ; Anthropocentrism ; Ecocentrism -- Light green or shallow (anthropocentric) ethics: What is a light green ethic? ; Environmentalism ; Lifeboat ethics -- Mid-green or intermediate ethics: Animal liberation ; Animal rights ; Biocentrism ; Animals and us ; Wild animals ; Domestic animals ; On (not) eating animals : the options -- Dark green or deep (ecocentric) ethics: A suggested definition ; The land ethic ; Gaia theory ; Deep ecology ; Deep green theory ; Left biocentrism ; Ecocentrism and the Left ; The Earth manifesto ; The Earth charter -- Ecofeminism: A master mentality ; Ecofeminism in action ; Ecofeminism and ethics -- Deep green ethics as post-secular: Dogmatic secularism ; An ecocentric spirituality ; Animism ; Green Buddhism? -- Moral pluralism and pragmatism: The poverty of monism ; The consequences of pluralism ; Multicentrism -- Green citizenship and education: Making it real ; A long revolution ; Ecological education ; Traditional ecological knowledge ; Ecological Republicanism ; A note on wisdom -- Grounding ecological ethics: The food system ; On Malthus ; Climate change ; Wind power and energy ; Nuclear energy ; Geo-engineering ; Carbon trading and ecosystem service : the new gods of the market ; Sustainability ; The limits to growth ; A left ecocentric guide to capitalism ; Alternatives ; Movements in the right direction -- Human overpopulation: The problem ; Analysing overpolulation ; Taking on the arguments ; Climate change again ; Overpopulation and ecocentrism ; -- Postscript.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-326) and index.
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Keywords: Environmental ethics