Environmental Ethics defined:

“In general, environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relations between human beings and their natural environment. Environmental ethics assumes that human behavior toward the natural world can be and is governed by moral norms. A theory of environmental ethics then must go on to (1) explain what these norms are, (2) explain to whom or to what humans have responsibilities, and (3) show how these responsibilities are justified.”

Des Jardins (p. 9)

Willie Nelson and three business partners recently formed a company called Willie Nelson's Biodiesel that is marketing clean-burning biodiesel fuel to truck stops.

Photo: AP Photo/Paul Natkin/Farm Aid www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66288,00.htmlaccessed 15 Jan 2005

http://www.wnbiodiesel.com/services.htmllaccessed 15 Jan 2005

http://www.distributiondrive.com/accessed 15 Jan 2005

Q3 -

What is the connection between this event and the topic of this course -

environmental ethics?

Environmental Ethics defined:

“In general, environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relations between human beings and their natural environment. Environmental ethics assumes that human behavior toward the natural world can be and is governed by moral norms. A theory of environmental ethics then must go on to (1) explain what these norms are, (2) explain to whom or to what humans have responsibilities, and (3) show how these responsibilities are justified.”

Des Jardins (p. 9)