Welcome to UI 429, Environmental Ethics.
Environmental ethics is one of the newest fields of philosophical study.
When you consider that philosophy is as old as the human civilization itself, then you come to realize just how young the study of environmental ethics is. This course offers an exciting opportunity to investigate some cutting edge philosophy, some of it quite good, and naturally, some of it equally bad. Your task will be to sort the good from the bad in an attempt to formulate your own perspective on moral human behavior in the environment. The term environmental ethics is a bit of a misnomer for this class. We will be doing more than our fair share of ethics, but we will also do so much more.