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The Environmental Justice Equal In Proportion

Posted on:2007-06-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2121360182473172Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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The global environmental crisis essentially is a human existence crisis.Value relation between people and nature and the aggravation of the environmental pollution are all worth introspecting by us.Environmental justice tries to probe into environmental ethic norms and offers environmental protection guidance of practice to people.Making the environmental ethic norms needs proceeding from concrete ecological fact and rebuilds the values.To rebuild the values needs to clear up the modern dogma which believes in discordance between fact and the values.Correct values and corresponding moral ends offer the standard to judge and draw up ecological ethic norms.So good ecological ethic norms depend on wether they accord with the morals purpose and proceed from ecological fact.Thus,it is not impartial to assert that human interests should always come first nor is it correct to say that preserving an ecosystem is always more important than any set of human interests.Then,"how to protect the nature"becomes a real problem.Analysing several kinds of traditional justice views,for instance utilitarianism,contract doctrine and virtue theory , can help us know their deficiency in protecting the nature.Utility justice emphasizes the result excessively; contract justice has the contradiction between personal and collective rationality; virtue justice pays attention to individual cultivation of moral character which is not enough to commit social behavioural norms.For this reason,the environmental justice equal in proportion is advocated,which regards protecting the nature as the natural obligation.It can be subdivided into three sectors:justice among races,justice among generations and justice among different people.They are all real.While solving three problems,we should base on ecological income and unite the environment right and the corresponding duty together in order to reach a kind of races justice.For avoiding the partial inclination to the coming generations,we makes the proportion of environmental income and duty equal among generations.For getting the environmental justice among different people,we should bring out a rule which requires the person who pollutes the environment should bring the pollutions under control.Certainly,the environmental justice in proportion also outlines the demarcations of the environmental duty and right.Thus,she herself can be proper.Their restriction basis is the stability of ecosystem.The ideal of the passage is to make proportions equal between generations and different present people.The ends of the environmental justice equal in proportion is to make human kind go on and on.
Keywords/Search Tags:value, environmental justice equal in proportion, fairness among races, fairness among generations, fairness among present people
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