Welcome

Welcome to the Environmental Ethics blog, a place where students of Environmental Science are invited to step back from what we are learning about how the world works and to consider how we ought to act toward other creatures and the environment. As a professor, I am looking forward to using this blog to facilitate learning. Students enrolled in the course will receive information regarding login and guidelines for posting comments.

Science and Ethics

Based upon your understanding of the role ethics in relation to science and technology as presented in Chapter 1, select one aspect of the issue of pesticide usage and tease out the important considerations that are scientific and those that are ethical.  For example, you might choose to address “justification of pesticide usage”, or “risk”, or “damage”, or “natural versus non-natural (e.g. pesticide).”