Environmental ethics

The ethical issues relating to environment. May take anthropocentric, biocentric or ecocentric an approach, bioethics is a term including both environmental ethics and medical ethics issues. Environmental ethics or environmental philosophy considers the ethical relationship between human beings and the natural environment. It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including law, sociology, theology, economics and geography. Environmental ethics is properly but a subsection of environmental philosophy, which includes environmental aesthetics, environmental theology, and indeed all the branches of philosophical investigation. Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology, ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography. There are many ethical decisions that human beings make with respect to the environment. For example: Should we continue to clear-cut forests for the sake of human consumption? Why should we continue to propagate our species, and life itself? Should we continue to make gasoline powered vehicles? What environmental obligations do we need to keep for future generations? Is it right for humans to knowingly cause the extinction of a species for the convenience of humanity? How should we best use and conserve the space environment to secure and expand life? Ethical approaches: Libertarian Extension, the Ecologic Extension and Conservation Ethics.