Ecological Ethics

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction This Book An Initial Example Looking Ahead Value and Nature Ethics and Grub What's New? Transparency and Responsibility 2 The Earth in Crisis The Signs Analysing Ecocrisis Science and Technology 3 Ethics What is Ethics? Realism vs. Relativism The Naturalistic Fallacy Religious Ethics Secular Ethics 4 Three Schools of Ethics Deontology ('Rights') Consequentialism ('Effects') Virtue Ethics A Green Virtue Ethic 5 Value Some Issues Anthropocentrism Ecocentrism 6 Light Green or Shallow (Anthropocentric) Ethics What is a Light Green Ethic? Environmentalism Lifeboat Ethics 7 Mid-Green or Intermediate Ethics Animal Liberation Animal Rights Biocentrism Animals and Us Wild Animals Domestic Animals On (Not) Eating Animals: the Options 8 Dark Green or Deep (Ecocentric) Ethics A Suggested De?nition The Land Ethic Gaia Theory Deep Ecology Deep Green Theory Left Biocentrism Ecocentrism and the Left The Earth Manifesto 9 Ecofeminism 10 Deep Green Ethics as Post-Secular Dogmatic Secularism An Ecocentric Spirituality Animism Green Buddhism? 11 Moral Pluralism and Pragmatism The Poverty of Monism The Consequences of Pluralism Multicentrism 12 Green Citizenship and Education Making it Real A Long Revolution? Ecological Education Traditional Ecological Knowledge Ecological Republicanism A Note on Wisdom 13 Grounding Ecological Ethics The Food System On Malthus Climate Change Wind Power and Energy Nuclear Energy Geo-engineering Carbon Trading and Ecosystem Services: the New Gods of the Market Sustainability The Limits to Growth A Left Ecocentric Guide to Capitalism Alternatives Movements in the Right Direction 14 Human Overpopulation The Problem Analysing Overpopulation Taking on the Arguments about Overpopulation Climate Change Again Overpopulation and Ecocentrism 15 Postscript Notes References Index