Environmental Ethics
📋 What it is
Environmental ethics asks what we owe to nature, animals, and future generations.
🗣️ Coach says
Ethics isn’t only about people alive today. Do we owe something to animals, to forests, to kids not yet born? Environmental ethics widens the circle of "who counts" when we make a choice.
🧠 Memory hook
Widen the circle: nature, animals, and future kids count too.
😂 Giggle
What did empathy say to sympathy?
"I don't just feel FOR you — I feel WITH you!"
😲 Whoa!
Some countries have given rivers or forests legal "rights" — an ethical idea turned into law.
✅ Quick check: How does environmental ethics widen the question of "who is affected" by a choice?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
It adds nature, animals, and future generations to the people alive today, so our choices consider more than just ourselves now.
Expanding the "moral circle" is a big idea in modern ethics.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name one everyday choice that affects nature or future generations, and a fairer alternative.