Key Question: What would an ethic of care towards the environment look like?
- What would be needed to create it.
We need to see the environment as a person that need care from us.
- What would we have to believe about the environment? How should we see it?
People should believe that the environment is very important to human, we need to protect it in order to save our life and we also need to believe that what we did really impact the environment a lot, so we need to be careful about our action.
- How would we act? – give scenarios
When there is ethic of care, we would think about the environment every time before we do something to it. For example, when we need to cut down tress to built houses or making papers, we would think about where would the animals go. When we use plastic bags, we might think about how the plastic affects the environment and try to reducing the time use it.
- What would be different about the world if everyone adopted this ethic of care towards the environment? Benefits and drawbacks?
There would be many benefits when we adopted this ethic of care towards the environment because we live on the earth and the environment is really important in our life. When the time we really care about the environment, we would make our life better and have a better balance. But there are also drawbacks, as we use the resources from the environment, we need to use it to improve our life. The ethic of care would reduce many chances and convenience in people’s life.
- Should we adopt an ethic of care towards the environment?
I think we need to adopt an ethic of care toward the environment because I feel we can’t live without the environment, when we use the resources, we really need to think about it in order to keep the environment as before. But maybe not too much because there would be too many restrictions, and we need to live our life.