Shruti SharmaCSE 2024 · 209 wordsTheir whole copy
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In a country where the 'pipal' tree has been worshipped since Harappan times, environmental ethics refers to looking at the world keeping the interests of nature and man in continuum.
It finds expression in many ways:
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Finding balance between development and ethics → Yadadri Tree Model (urban forestry in Telangana): Urbanisation + Conservation.
Preserving diversity → Tulasi Gowda (Padma Shri awarder) forefront of restoration of trees.
Animal welfare → Elephant doctor in Assam (Padma Shri awarder) → Treating animals (tigers) as brothers/kin members (Idu Mishmi tribe) Arunachal
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Laws and ethics though having the same goal of an orderly, ethical society are different as well.
| LAWS | ETHICS |
|---|---|
| 1. Focus of control: External | 1. Internal authority |
| 2. On breach: Punishment | 2. Feeling of guilt. |
| 3. Depend on the context/country → Abortion laws | 3. Certain ethical principles universal → Truth, Love, Non violence |
| 4. All laws may not be ethical → Holocaust in Germany | 4. Ethics not necessarily codified in law. |
Yet, a truly just society from Hobbesian state of nature can only exist when the laws of the society are in consonance with ethics → Affirmative action laws.
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