Environmental Ethics

4.0 credits

This course is an introduction to the ethics of human beings’ interactions with the environment and the impact of those interactions on other human beings, other species, and ecosystems. It addresses basic questions about the nature of ethics itself, alternative ethical theories and considerations, and the value of individual human beings, individuals of other species, species as such, and ecosystems. Topics will include the interests of future generations, animal rights, the concept of nature, climate change, sustainability, and population and consumption.