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Environmental Ethics - Coggle Diagram
Environmental Ethics
Who?
- People of faith are called to live ethically, making choices that respect the environment based on their religious values.
- Many religious groups and leaders advocate for environmental protection, urging their followers to take action on issues like climate change and sustainable living.
- Movements like Laudato Si’ in the Catholic tradition, which urges action on environmental issues, show how religious communities can influence global change.
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What?
- Human responsiblility for and to the environment
- The idea that humans are responsible for preserving God's creation or ensuring the balance of natural order for future generations.
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Why?
- Concepts like stewardship (Christianity), karma (Hinduism/Buddhism), and Tikkun Olam (Judaism) call for caring for the Earth.
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Impacts?
- various religions interpret modern challenges like climate change, deforestation, and pollution as ethical concerns that threaten the integrity of creation
- Different Philosophical teachings teaching various contradicting concepts about moral obligations and responsibility and other religions believing other things to do with the environment