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Environmental ethics

Environmental ethics is a discipline within philosophy which has swiftly garnered international academic status.

Environmental ethics is a discipline within philosophy which has swiftly garnered international academic status.

In essence, we can think of environmental ethics as essentially asking two simple questions. Firstly, do humans have duties to the environment and why so? And, secondly, what are these duties that humans have to the environment?

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