Larrère, Catherine <br/><br/>
Trends in Environmental Ethics 

 -  2010.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article investigates the main trends in environmental ethics (biocentrism, ecocentrism, pragmatism). It starts by outlining the context in which these various ethics emerged, i.e. concern for environmental issues in the 70s. It then highlights the main characteristics of each trend (intrinsic value, biotic community, diversity of environmental values) and points out the main difficulties each trend faces (an overly individualistic approach in the case of biocentrism, risks of holism with ecocentrism, forgetting nature with pragmatism). Last, it examines the political objections which were raised about these ethics, especially regarding pluralism. The papers concludes in favour of a relational ethics capable of advertising the “good news” of ecology, i.e. that we live in a world in which everything is interconnected, and open to a pluralistic and democratic discussion rather than enforcing some scientific truth.