75 | 2020
Ethics of the Environmental Crisis
Few would deny that we are currently experiencing an environmental crisis of unprecedented magnitude and severity. Yet, much less clear is what phenomena the environmental crisis refers to and why they are particularly unjust. For instance, one might wonder whether the environmental crisis is unjust because it impinges on the intrinsic value of the environment, or because it severely affects humans and their human rights in particular. Equally, it is far from clear who should bear the responsibility to remedy the environmental crisis and to what extent.
This issue of Rivista di Estetica addressees these questions with the aim of clarifying what the environmental crisis is and involves, as well as how we should frame it from a justice-based perspective. It accomplishes this in four sections. The first section investigates what the environment is. The second section addresses the environmental crisis through the normative lenses of the concept of responsibility. The third section analyses the environmental crisis through a human-rights perspective. Finally, the fourth section introduces some new paths that the literature may and perhaps should take. This issue will appeal to anyone interested in the environment and its crisis.
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ontological reflections on the environment
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Climate issue: the principle of transgenerational responsibility [Testo integrale]
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responsibility for the environment
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Organismality grounds species collective responsibility [Testo integrale]
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the environment and human rights
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Human Dignity: Final, Inherent, Absolute? [Testo integrale]
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On tackling the environmental crisis through human rights [Testo integrale]
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new problems and perspectives
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Ontological Frameworks for Food Utopias [Testo integrale]
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Tying Climate Justice to Hydrological Justice [Testo integrale]
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varia
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The Ontology of Landscapes [Testo integrale]
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