Environmental ethics lie right in the middle of Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, and Ecocentrism.
Anthropocentrism is important because we need to look out for our own species. That is what animals do and that is what is in our nature. We must give food to the hungry, hope to the needy, give life to a baby and give care for free. I did not write these words, it is from a very motivating song that we should get the priviledged to listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9Eckixo-o&feature=related. Xavier Rudd is amazing at inspiring people to protect nature and to take care of people. His song gives a message that we must do good to our planet. By doing so we must look out for each other, adopt a anthropocentric way of thinking without compromising the well being of other species. This would be the Biocentric outlook that to protect our environment we need to adopt the idea that every individual living thing has the same right to live as humans do. They will take care of themselves, we must only let them do so by giving them space to prosper. That would mean to adopt a ecocentric outlook which is protecting ecosystems in whole so that every species can survive and us humans can enjoy the irreplaceable services the ecosystem provides for us.
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