Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health

Butler, Colin D.

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Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health

Date

2021-01-01

Authors

Butler, Colin D.

Abstract

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.