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

 

John Gale - Badger Genocide

Badger Genocide

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In blighty the so-called ‘alliance’ government of the Imperialist Invaders, with the backing of the Germanic royalty, the Norman aristocracy and the general human populace (over 60 million mongrel descendants of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, etc) have launched a genocidal attack on the mere 250,000 population one of the oldest inhabitants (Meles meles aka Brock, grey pate, bawson, baget ; broch, pryf penrith, pryf llwyd [Welsh] ;  brochlach [Scottish Gaelic] ; broc [Irish Gaelic]) of this sacred isle.

The politicians have decided that for this ‘cull’ to be affective, at least 70% of the population have to be slaughtered.

 

P.S.  In 1998 the Government undertook a 9-year[1] large scale field experiment to ascertain the effectiveness of badger culling and Bovine TB. The result was “culling of Badgers increased the incidence of infection in cattle”

The results are discussed at length in a 287-page UK government study and in numerous scientific papers, including several in Nature ²

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So is the government’s decision to let farmers shoot badgers scientifically sound?

 

No, says John Krebs, a zoologist, member of the House of Lords, and principal of Jesus College at the University of Oxford, who recommended running the 9-year study. “They went against the science on political grounds.”

1.      Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB Bovine TB: the Scientific Evidence (ISG, 2007); available at http://go.nature.com/7gdmdh

2.      Donnelly, C. A. et al. Nature 426, 834–837 (2003).

3.      Donnelly, C. A. et al. Nature 439, 843–846 (2006).

http://www.nature.com/news/badger-battle-erupts-in-england-1.11595#/b1

Iroquois. Confederacy

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of your grandchildren and those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

 

This weeks green thought comes from the founders of the Iroquois. Confederacy, c.1000 AD

 

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/