Environmental ethics: Quick Facts

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Charred tree trunks and smoldering ash cover a deforested area of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, with smoke rising among sparse remaining trees.

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environmentalism conservation Ethics Applied ethics media ethics Bioethics Legal ethics Neuroethics casuistry intergenerational ethics Speciesism moral theology Comparative ethics Normative ethics

Key People

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Holmes Rolston III

American philosopher and theologian

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Paul W. Taylor

American philosopher