Human Needs and Natural Relations: The Dilemmas of Ecology I

In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 8, S. 59-64

Abstract

Examines the challenge of attaining ecological justice in the face of international economic/political competition for natural space & resources. Three ethical dilemmas are identified in regard to achieving an egalitarian solution to global ecological exploitation: (1) how human needs & ecological sustainability can be fulfilled without hindering cultural diversity; (2) how current needs can be reconciled to those of future generations; & (3) how animals fit into the human moral universe. Also discussed is the tendency of first-world needs & desires to be forced on the Third World, & the exploitation that naturally follows. D. Bajo