moral relationship with the environment through anthropocentrism or ecocentrism deep ecology and ecofeminism
Do we owe a debt to our children to preserve the environment? Do you think we are facing a Tragedy of the Commons and should act accordingly? Which of the various approaches in this chapter (anthropocentrism or ecocentrism, including both deep ecology and ecofeminism) do you think is the best way of understanding our moral relationship to the environment? And what do you make of Guha’s critique of deep ecology? Can he be categorized as being anthropocentric or as a variant of deep ecology? Or does he successfully bridge the gap between them?