GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

ECOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

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Environmental ethics deal with moral relationship of human beings to
A
the value and moral status of the environment and its nonhuman contents
B
the values that is important to development and economic growth
C
the values that is important to development and economic growth
D
the conservation values of selected species
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non-human contents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Through environmental ethics, humans are considerate of not only themselves but also plants, animals, and every object in nature. With the moral grounds and values that environmental ethics provides, humans are responsibly using nature and not in a way that results in resource degradation and destruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Environmental ethics is the philosophical discipline that considers the moral and ethical relationship of human beings to the environment. In other words: what, if any, moral obligation does man have to the preservation and care of the non-human world?

Detailed explanation-4: -The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment.

Detailed explanation-5: -Definition. The term biocentrism encompasses all environmental ethics that “extend the status of moral object from human beings to all living things in nature". Biocentric ethics calls for a rethinking of the relationship between humans and nature.

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