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Sustainable living is a lifestyle that people are beginning to adopt, promoting to make decisions that would help protect biodiversity. [21] The small lifestyle changes that promote sustainability will eventually accumulate into the proliferation of biological diversity.
Andrew Brennan was an advocate of ecologic humanism (eco-humanism), the argument that all ontological entities, animate and inanimate, can be given ethical worth purely on the basis that they exist. The work of Arne Næss and his collaborator Sessions also falls under the libertarian extension, although they preferred the term " deep ecology ".
Trends of concern that require management include: over-fishing (beyond sustainable levels); [8] coral bleaching due to ocean warming, and ocean acidification due to increasing levels of dissolved carbon dioxide; [9] and sea level rise due to climate change. Because of their vastness oceans also act as a convenient dumping ground for human ...
Proponents of deep ecology oppose the narrative that man is separate from nature, is in charge of nature, or is the steward of nature, [9] or that nature exists as a resource to be freely exploited. They cite the fact that indigenous peoples under-exploited their environment and retained a sustainable society for thousands of years, as evidence ...
Sustainable living is fundamentally the application of sustainability to lifestyle choices and decisions. One conception of sustainable living expresses what it means in triple-bottom-line terms as meeting present ecological, societal, and economical needs without compromising these factors for future generations.
Similarly, Peter Singer argues that non-human animals deserve the same equality of consideration that we extend to human beings. [10] His argument is roughly as follows: Membership in the species Homo sapiens is the only criterion of moral importance that includes all humans and excludes all non-humans.
The field is today characterized by a notable diversity of stylistic, philosophical and cultural approaches to human environmental relationships, from personal and poetic reflections on environmental experience and arguments for panpsychism to Malthusian applications of game theory or the question of how to put an economic value on nature's ...
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.The Convention has three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity); the sustainable use of its components; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.