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Chapter 21 - Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health

from Section 4 - Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Colin D. Butler
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

This chapter links ethics, sustainability, and global health. It proposes that a deep reason for our peril, as a quasi-global civilization, is inequality. But inequality itself has deep, self-reinforcing causal roots. There is no “first” cause, and there is no easy solution.

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 281 - 292
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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