EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Anthropocentrism: What is it? Anthropocentrism literally means human-centered, but in its most relevant philosophical form it is the ethical belief that humans alone possess intrinsic value. In contradistinction, all other beings hold value only in their ability to serve humans, or in their instrumental value.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anthropocentrism regards humans as separate from and superior to nature and holds that human life has intrinsic value while other entities (including animals, plants, mineral resources, and so on) are resources that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anthropocentrism provides something that environmental philosophy needs – wide acceptance and public appeal. This paper argues that an environmental ethic that is weakly anthropocentric, in that it finds value in the environment via human values, can be both internally consistent and highly pragmatic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sole focus on humans relief humans of the responsibility of taking care of the environment or the nature. This view favours developments meeting the needs of the people of today regardless of what havoc it does to the environment and cares less that the future generation can meet their developmental needs.