Environmental Ethics:Animal Rights

Animal rights are concerned with the status of animals, whereas environmental ethics concerns itself with the relationship to the environment. I will show how the existence of animal ethics depends on the existence of environmental ethics. I will prove this by showing that such philosophers who have practiced animal rights such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and Paul Taylor are limited because they are individualistic. This means they are limited to animal concerns, and nothing …showed first 75 words of 1836 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1836 total…animal rights depend on the existence of environmental ethics. I have shown this by demonstrating the individualistic ways in which Singer, Regan, and Taylor look at this world. Their beliefs will only save the rights of animals, and the world cannot survive with just animals. I have also shown that by demonstrating the holistic views of Leapold, Westra, and Naess will preserve the rights of the environment as a whole. <Tab/>