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Can Environmental Ethics ’Solve’ Environmental Problems and Save the World? Yes, but First We Must Recognise the Essential Normative Nature of Environmental Problems

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Can Environmental Ethics ’Solve’ Environmental Problems and Save the World? Yes, but First We Must Recognise the Essential Normative Nature of Environmental Problems
Author(s)Kassiola, Joel Jay
AbstractThe major point made in this rebuttal article is that environmental problems are essentially normative in nature. Therefore, normative discourse, and environmental ethics in particular, do have a crucial role to play in environmental thought and action. The discussion concludes with the judgment that a failure to recognize this essential contribution of normative discourse to environmentalism by committing to a conservative empirical reductionism of environmental problems is detrimental to the necessary ethical and social change required to save the world.
IssueNo4
Pages489-514
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceEnvironmental Values
VolumeNo12
PubDateNovember 2003
ISBN_ISSN0963-2719


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