Environmental Ethics And Ecological Integrity
Every ecosystem that is intact, when it reverberates with abundance of life all native species of plants, animals d microorganisms that can exist in mutualisms and coherence without or with minimum intervention of external factors and dynamically stays in ecological uilibrium, vibrantly exists in the state of illogical integrity Ecological integrity is the destination universal evolution that is all-perving. It is a universal law; a universal were able to change everything, keeping ythmic pace with time. Nothing in this inverse can elude or evade evolution. Solution of an individual, of life, of the tire universe, goes on a single axis. ere can be no more than one evolution. solution strikes ecological balance rough ecological integrity via ecological max; and the climax strikes eco-balance deco-integrity. Ecological integrity is the bottom line of everything else in the biosphere. We cannot imagine life flowering sustainably on earth with on-going ecological disintegration of the biosphere, which is now precipitating into climate change that is proving to be a challenge. Indic culture has its roots in Aranya Sanskrit, forest culture. So ecological integrity in the past was not a problem. Now we are in a development race that depends on exploitation of natural resources, leading to ecological disintegration, further aggravated by changing the chemical constitution of our atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. If we analyse our lifestyles, we could conclude that our ethical system which used to help us to be inthe state of ecological integrity-is on the verge of collapse. This is a global problem that goes hand-in-hand with growth-oriented and resource-depleting socioeconomic development. With the depletion of natural resources, especially of forests, carbon cycle has changed its behaviour We were hardly the victims of our climate system in the past, for it was a phenomenon of the biosphere and regulated by the energy budget of the biosphere. We are now compelled to turn victims of the climate system, for that is now largely at our own command. Thanks to gradual breaking down of ecological integrity, climate change in essence, is a crisis of environmental ethics. Thus, ecological integrity and environmental ethics are closely allied. They are inseparable. Erosion of environmental ethics leads to corresponding breaking down of ecological integrity Ethics is the soul of human living. Ethics has now reached new horizons and attained new highs. It has been extended to, as it should have been, all that is out there in our environment, that is the part of the environment and whatever determines the qualities of the environment, including the non-human world, what is crucial and indispensable for overall existence and well-being of the human world. It is environmental ethics Environmental ethics is a part of envirdmental philosophy. It exerts essential influence on environmental sociology, geography, eco-theology, ecological economics and environmental laws. In our world in which anthropocentrism rules over entire nature, environmental ethics is all-powerful to sensitise human thinking and to cause humans toolmaker a change that matters. Ecological integrity, in essence, is the pivot ofenviromental ethics. Devoid of environmental ethics, ecological integrity is bound to break down and turn to ecological disastWe cannot watch ecological disaster hapning, and we cannot allow it to continue happening. (The writer is professor, environmental science, GB Pant University
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Environmental Ethics And Ecological Integrity
Every ecosystem that is intact, when it reverberates with abundance of life all native species of plants, animals d microorganisms that can exist in mutualisms and coherence without or with minimum intervention of external factors and dynamically stays in ecological uilibrium, vibrantly exists in the state of illogical integrity Ecological integrity is the destination universal evolution that is all-perving. It is a universal law; a universal were able to change everything, keeping ythmic pace with time. Nothing in this inverse can elude or evade evolution. Solution of an individual, of life, of the tire universe, goes on a single axis. ere can be no more than one evolution. solution strikes ecological balance rough ecological integrity via ecological max; and the climax strikes eco-balance deco-integrity. Ecological integrity is the bottom line of everything else in the biosphere. We cannot imagine life flowering sustainably on earth with on-going ecological disintegration of the biosphere, which is now precipitating into climate change that is proving to be a challenge. Indic culture has its roots in Aranya Sanskrit, forest culture. So ecological integrity in the past was not a problem. Now we are in a development race that depends on exploitation of natural resources, leading to ecological disintegration, further aggravated by changing the chemical constitution of our atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. If we analyse our lifestyles, we could conclude that our ethical system which used to help us to be inthe state of ecological integrity-is on the verge of collapse. This is a global problem that goes hand-in-hand with growth-oriented and resource-depleting socioeconomic development. With the depletion of natural resources, especially of forests, carbon cycle has changed its behaviour We were hardly the victims of our climate system in the past, for it was a phenomenon of the biosphere and regulated by the energy budget of the biosphere. We are now compelled to turn victims of the climate system, for that is now largely at our own command. Thanks to gradual breaking down of ecological integrity, climate change in essence, is a crisis of environmental ethics. Thus, ecological integrity and environmental ethics are closely allied. They are inseparable. Erosion of environmental ethics leads to corresponding breaking down of ecological integrity Ethics is the soul of human living. Ethics has now reached new horizons and attained new highs. It has been extended to, as it should have been, all that is out there in our environment, that is the part of the environment and whatever determines the qualities of the environment, including the non-human world, what is crucial and indispensable for overall existence and well-being of the human world. It is environmental ethics Environmental ethics is a part of envirdmental philosophy. It exerts essential influence on environmental sociology, geography, eco-theology, ecological economics and environmental laws. In our world in which anthropocentrism rules over entire nature, environmental ethics is all-powerful to sensitise human thinking and to cause humans toolmaker a change that matters. Ecological integrity, in essence, is the pivot ofenviromental ethics. Devoid of environmental ethics, ecological integrity is bound to break down and turn to ecological disastWe cannot watch ecological disaster hapning, and we cannot allow it to continue happening. (The writer is professor, environmental science, GB Pant University
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Vir Singh views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Vir Singh and Speaking Tree,Times of India