When your are not feeling well, you are able to tell someone or get help if you need it. Mother nature on the other hand can not call out for help. If you believe you are your brothers keeper meaning that you have a responsibility not only for yourself, but also for those who live on this planet with you. Then you must have a sense of stewardship. Stewardship is in my opinion is the act of caring for those things that you do not and can not own. If I look at this from the perspective of the planet I then own the responsibility of caring for the planet not only in my life time, but for future generations. In many cases those in need can ask for help. A friend, a family member, even an enemy can ask for help. The question is how does the planet show us signs of health or suffering. How as stewards do we see the signs of suffering. It is not the planets responsibly to show us these signs, but our responsibility as stewards to look for these signs.
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Adam: I would ask you to apply your thinking to an ethical theory or theories. I ask this as everything has tradeoffs and decision points, and so on what basis do we "care" for the earth. If we act to make change, what does that mean and then who is effected. How does it effect the developing world?, how does it effect countries that did not benefit ecominmically from the inductrial revolution?
ReplyDeleteThese ar ebut a few considerations and what ethical principle do we apply, how do we apply a justie thic to our view of "stewardship", what is our duty, to clean the planet, at what cost to people. Did you know that 25% of all people do not live on an energy grid, do we prevent them from getting on the grid becuase that will cause more CO2 emisiions or do we act in another way.
You raise an interesting point, but look at the toatl picture and what moral tradeoffs do yo umake, and on what basis?
Thanks, I will try to add more of what we cover in the learning plans in my future posts.
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