Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Brown, Peter G. and Orr, Christopher J. (2016) 'Ethics in the Anthropocene : a research agenda.', The Anthropocene review., 3 (3). pp. 188-200.
Abstract
The quantitative evidence of human impacts on the Earth System has produced new calls for planetary stewardship. At the same time, numerous scholars reject modern social sciences by claiming that the Anthropocene fundamentally changes the human condition. However, we cannot simply dismiss all previous forms of cultural learning or transmission. Instead, this paper examines ethics in the Anthropocene, and specifically what it implies for: (1) reassessing our normative systems in view of human impacts on the Earth System; (2) identifying novel ethical problems in the Anthropocene; and (3) repositioning traditional issues concerning fairness and environmental ethics. It concludes by situating ethics within the challenge of connecting multiple social worlds to a shared view of human and Earth histories and calls for renewed engagement with ethics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (329Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616662052 |
| Publisher statement: | Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Brown, Peter G. and Orr, Christopher J. (2016) 'Ethics in the Anthropocene : a research agenda.', The Anthropocene review., 3 (3). pp. 188-200. Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 19 January 2017 |
| Date of first online publication: | 27 July 2016 |
| Date first made open access: | 19 January 2017 |
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