The Complexities and Balancing Act of Environmental Ethics
Matthew Mausner – What does it mean to act ethically with respect to the environment? What does it mean to have environmental ethics? These are questions that include many sides and angles of understanding the complex and intertwined set of relationships human society has to ecosystems and the planet as a whole. It raises issues of how to treat animals, plants, and other humans ethically, in a context in which human civilization has major global effects.