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Introduction to Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
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Introduction to Environmental Ethics and Sustainability

Learn the philosophical underpinnings to environmental theory and ethics, and how to begin to live sustainably.
Created byDr Daniel O'Shiel
Last updated 3/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • The basics of environmental ethics
  • The basics of sustainability
  • Background philosophical ideas relating to nature and the environment
  • How to help save ourselves

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 54m total length

  • Introduction4:13

    Explore environmental ethics and sustainability through philosophy, and learn a clear, actable personal and social ethic to address the climate crisis.

  • Philosophy and Ethics9:54

    Explore philosophy and ethics, surveying virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, and environmental ethics, while linking justice, intersectionality, and ethics of care to sustainability.

  • Quiz L2
  • Environmental Ethics16:15

    Explore the origin and five strands of environmental ethics: environmental virtue ethics, biocentrism/ecocentrism/deep ecology, ecofeminism, social ecology, and environmental pragmatism, and their focus on nature, justice, and urgent real-world action.

  • Quiz L3
  • Sustainability11:54

    Explains sustainability as enough for all forever, contrasts funnel models, and outlines eight principles including do not extract, pollute, or destroy, plus ABCD analysis and circular economy.

  • Quiz L4
  • An Environmental Ethics of Minimalism12:29

    Explore an environmental ethics of minimalism that prioritizes reducing wants over needs, leverages the waste stream hierarchy, and promotes sustainable actions to combat the forces of hyper capitalism.

  • Quiz L5

Requirements

  • Just an interest in environmental theory and action

Description

This course provides the philosophical underpinnings to environmental theory and ethics, and helps you how to begin to think, live and act more sustainably. This is a global issue, and especially urgent in the West, as our hypercapitalist societies, as well as their economic and political systems, condition us from very early ages to consume way more than is good for us. We are reaching a watershed moment where if we do not begin to live more sustainably en masse, then we as a species will suffer even more, and might even perish in the not-too-distant future.

The planet's climate is fast approaching irreversible tipping points and although the science is clear, serious uptake is still grossly floundering, and many groups and institutions are still actively stalling or even against, and are thereby making a dire situation even worse. This free and relatively brief course gives you some initial inroads into how to be part of the solution, and not the problem. Your journey in environmental ethics and sustainability starts here! Enjoy and prosper!

There are 5 relatively short and sharp lectures to this course, with recommended readings and a quiz after each one.

1. Introduction

2. Philosophy and Ethics

3. Environmental Ethics

4. Sustainability

5. An Environmental Ethics of Minimalism

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in environmental theory and action!

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