Patrick Curry - Ecological Ethics

( An Ethics based on an enlightened human self-interest) denies any responsibility for the effects of our behaviour on the millions of other species and many millions of living individuals with whom we share the Earth : not exactly an ethically impressive position.

 

Taken from Patrick Currys excellent Ecological Ethics (2^nd edition 2011). He is arguing for the replacement of ‘human-centred ethics with an ethics centred on nature – Ecocentrism.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocentrism

 

Wangari Maathai

I just have something inside me that tells me there is a problem and I must do something about it, so I am doing something about it.

This weeks green thought comes from the Right Livelihood Award winner Wangari Maathai

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Livelihood_Award

Edward Abbey

 “Growth for the sake of growth, is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

This weeks green thought comes from the American author Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey

http://www.abbeyweb.net/

 

Jack Turner - The Abstract Wild

Perhaps what I fear most is that the destruction of the natural world to serve human needs and ideals will become an issue decided by opinion polls and surveys that track the gentle undulations of the true, the good and the beautiful among a people now ignorant of what was once their wild and beautiful home.

 

Taken from the 1996 book The Abstract Wild written by the American mountaineer and philosopher Jack Turner. 

Mahatma Gandhi

 "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."

This weeks green thought comes from Mahatma Gandhi

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi