An ethic of care, based on what I think, would be a kind of labour and practice, a relationship, and a disposition. Care is a cluster of practices and values; moreover, care is everything we do to maintain and improve our body, environment, and our society. The four sub-elements which help us to maintain our “world” are: attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and responsiveness. I believe that care is a cluster of practices and values because firstly we need to appreciate something in order to start caring about it; additionally, we don’t have to see the result immediately to start caring about a phenomenon.
In order to create this kind of ethic, we must be aware of the different aspects of our modern world problems. So, as a result, learning the language of politics besides the language of geography is mandatory for understanding a variety of circumstances, for example, the melting of polar ice caps. In order to understand the aspects of this disaster, we must be aware of the outcomes of the sea level rising, the greenhouse effect, and the climate change. Also, we should follow up the news and be aware of the world that is going on around us.
We should see the environment as our dearest family member, we should act towards it as we act in the presence of our beloved ones. This planet is the only home that we will ever have, so we should expand our prospect and think about the future generations more.
We can practice this caring process in our daily life. For example, imagine that you have gone to Costco to shop groceries, and suddenly you find out that Costco is selling the huge packages of food with a low price and in that moment, you ask yourself: “do I really need to buy this amount of food?” The big companies like Kirkland are paralyzing the local agriculture industries, and the matter of fact is that they are overusing the soil to fulfill the huge grocery stores. One of the ethical aspects of this action is that many people are suffering from starvation in other continents and these companies can either donate or export their goods to those continents, but they are focusing on the North America’s market because it has more benefits for them. Also, food companies need the nice and neat packages in order to convince the costumers to buy their products, and this packaging industry is growing more and more every day. The increasing of food production besides the growing rate of the packaging industries will result in producing more waste. By applying this ethic, not only our generation survives, but also the future generations would be proud of us. The world would be a better place if we stop some of our destructive routine habits; for example, the soil will start to repair itself, our moral characteristics will defeat our greed, the natural cycles will be back to their normal conditions, and many of the ecosystems which are greatly depend on the soil will survive. Also, the local businesses like the farmers markets will grow. The only drawback that I could see is that we must pay more for our weekly grocery shopping, and many people who work for the food companies will might have to seek for another job. So, in conclusion, you may ask yourself that should we adopt an ethic of care towards the environment? In my idea, we can’t force the people to adopt certain ethic towards environment because the ethics that we obey are mostly reflects our personal philosophy, and every individual has his/her own unique philosophy, thoughts, and values. We should unlimber the opportunity for people to give them the freedom to choose either to adopt this ethic or nor. But personally, I have adopted this ethic towards the environment in order to help the local businesses and prevent the big companies to abuse the resources that belong to all of us.