ENVS203: Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views

Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to:

• describe the various approaches to environmental ethics;    
  
• categorize beliefs about environmental ethics;
  
• examine the differences between utilitarian conservation and biocentric preservation;
  
• identify the key arguments of the Gaia hypothesis, and evaluate the evidence of the theory; and
  
• critically analyze various religious viewpoints about the environment.