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PHILOSOPHY 102 (STOLZE)

This chapter from Dale Jamieson's "Ethics and the Environment" explores the complexities of measuring environmental impact through individual and collective ecological footprints. Utilizing the IPAT formula, it examines the links between population, affluence, and technology in determining ecological consequences. The text discusses justice considerations and spatial and temporal dimensions in environmental ethics, addressing global poverty and duties to future generations. It presents three potential environmental futures, highlighting the importance of sustainable development in meeting present needs without jeopardizing future generations' ability to thrive.

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PHILOSOPHY 102 (STOLZE)

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  1. PHILOSOPHY 102 (STOLZE) Notes on Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment, chapter 7

  2. Measuring Environmental Impact • Measuring individual and collective ecological footprints • The IPAT formula: Impact (I) = Population (P) x Affluence (A) x Technology (T)

  3. Questions of Justice • A spatial dimension: the link between global poverty and climate disruption • A temporal dimension: our duties to future generations

  4. Spaceship or Lifeboat Earth? • Spaceship and Lifeboat Analogies • Boulding’s “sharing ethic” leads to what Hardin has called the “tragedy of the commons” (p. 193).

  5. Three Possible Future Environmental Scenarios • Environmental catastrophe • Global inequality and environmental degradation continue and increase • A change in the way of life of the world’s most privileged people

  6. Growth, Sustainability, and Happiness • Sustainable development (as opposed to unlimited economic growth”) was defined in a 1987 report by the U.N.’s Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” (p. 195). • Diener and Mill on materialism and human happiness • Reasons for despair, reasons for hope…

  7. My Personal Stake

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