If knowing the problems of the world will help offer solutions, what are the major problems?
And how do we solve these problems? What are the organizations or people helping already to help this world prosper? The ones I read of are permaculture, deep ecology and cybernetics.
Any books or websites with this info would help tremendously. Thank you.
Cathedral forest in Oregon is one of the last stands of virgin forest remaining on the North American continent. The forest is called old growth because the trees (Douglas firs) are among the oldest and biggest on the planet. Old growth constitutes an almost infinitesimal percentage of forested lands in the United States. Even though there is no commercial demand for the timber, the U.S. forest service has made the harvesting of the last of the old trees a priority. The Forest Service has sold Cathedral Forest to Willamette Industries, a large wood-products company.
To protect the forest from being cut down, radical environmentalist Mike Roselle has resorted to an illegal guerrilla action called tree spiking. He has driven long nails into trees in a spiral pattern. Chain saws and saw blades will shatter when they hit the buried nails. Mike hopes that the spiked trees will prevent Willamette from cutting down the forest. Mike notified the loggers that the trees have been spiked to prevent unnecessary harm to the lumberjacks.
Is tree spiking morally justified or not? On what basis do you draw this conclusion? Is it consistent with the principles of Deep Ecology? Fully explain your answer. (Make sure to explicitly reference some ethical theory(s).)
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In a new report, the Presidents Cancer Panel emphatically reinforced what public health officials and activists have been saying for decades: Toxic chemicals in the environment are killing people. Scolding regulators for taking a reactionary rather than a precautionary approach, the panel, attached to the National Institutes of Health, noted that only a few hundred of the 80000 chemicals used in the United States have been tested for safety.
Experts will announce this month the world has failed to meet the target set by international leaders to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by this year. Professor Joseph Alcamo, chief scientist of the United Nations Environment Program told the London Guardian: “Since 1970 we have reduced animal populations by 30%, the area of mangroves and sea grasses by 20% and the coverage of living corals by 40%. These losses are clearly unsustainable, since biodiversity makes a key contribution to human well-being and sustainable development.”