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Ancestry and Crisis

Published:2022-08-18 Issue: Volume: Page:C15.S1-C15.S5
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Container-title:The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics
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Author:

Whyte Kyle¹

Affiliation:

1. Philosophy, Michigan State University

Abstract

Abstract Ecocentrism refers to a family of approaches to environmental ethics that offer various reasons why moral responsibilities should aim at protecting some kinds of ecological organization as opposed to other kinds. Ecological organization refers to any collective entities signaled by concepts like ecosystems, biotic communities, ecological contexts, and landscapes. Ecocentric ethics furnish theories of intergenerational ethics. The theories take the significance of ecological organization as the basis of establishing moral responsibilities to past, present, and future generations of diverse beings and entities, including humans but also beyond humans to encompass plants, landscapes, fungi, mountains, animals, and rivers, among others. The author reviews a number of different approaches to ecocentrism, including those based on kinship, wildness, ecological context, and sentiment. The author then suggests that there is a key topic to discuss regarding how these approaches view their connections to ancestral generations in terms of the environmental ethics the present generation may have inherited and how such ethics frame approaches to today’s crises like climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Oxford University Press

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