Abstract: Environmentalism is a movement that arose in response to global environmental crises. It encompasses theories about the nature and causes of environmental problems, moral views about our relation to nature, and attempts to define and bring about an environmentally sound society. The main moral debate among environmentalists is between those who value nature for the sake of human well-being and those who take an ecocentric view—who think that things in nature have inherent worth. The main issues of environmentalist political theory are how an environmentally sound society should be defined and achieved, and how the achievement of this goal is related to other political values.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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