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Sep 27, 2024
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PHI 6900 - Environmental Ethics
3 Credit(s) Hours: 3 hrs.
This course examines the ethics of human behavior as it impacts other species and the natural environment. Topics include the earth’s energy/resource carry capacity (land use, industrial agriculture, seed patents, soil depletion, deforestation, and population expansion), ecological conservation (biodiversity, global pollution, globalization of disease, endangered species, and genetically modified organisms), and the ethical treatment of animals (factory farming, hunting, circuses, zoos, pets, leather and fur, scientific/medical and cosmetics research on animals). Leading theories of environmental ethics, their moral and conceptual foundations, and their expression in policy and practice will be examined critically.
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