Ethics in the Public Sphere

November 9, 2022 By Allison Bramblett Western Civilization has long considered nature as a resource for use rather than an entity of its own. However, in 2021 Orange County in Florida passed a law recognizing the Wekiva river’s rights “to exist, to flow, to be protected against pollution, and to maintain a healthy ecosystem” (Kaminski, […]

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Humans affect the world around us every day, but the moral, social, and ecological implications of our impact increase in our heavily globalized world. This is made especially clear in relation to climate change, the greatest environmental threat that our contemporary society faces and perhaps that any society has faced. Scientists agree that we are […]

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