Week 5

Last Tuesday, ma’am Demzen gave us a lesson regarding with the ethical issues in relation to the natural environment. There was a quote by Kentraro Matsuura, which I do not agree fully. He said “We can constantly make new things but we can’t make a new world”. Literally, I don’t think we could make a new world. I mean, only space itself can do that naturally but, If we are talking about making a new world by finding another planet to live in, I think it is very possible. In fact, there are billions of earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone that are located in each of their star’s goldilock’s zone just like earth is located in the sun’s goldilock’s zone or the habitable zone. The habitable zone of a star is the place where it is not very near to the star, neither very close. It is the place where liquid water do not get frozen nor evaporate. And as we know, water is the very essential part a planet should have which makes it possible to harbor life. So anyways, so much for that, Ecocentrism is one of the environmental ethics that I really like the most, and the one that I find the most morally correct among all. It is because in Ecocentrism, it focuses on the interests of all species and natural features of Earth’s ecosystems, refusing to place any aspect or species above the others. We are just equal to all life forms in this world. Also, we should always take care of our mother earth. It is because we are also just equally valuable as our mother earth. Also, if we do not take care of it, future generations will suffer. Soon, if what we are currently doing still happens in the future, the future generation would not be able to breathe the fresh air that we are breathing right now. I think that it is very sad and most probably, in years time, the destruction of our planet will probably occur because of our greed and hunger for the things in this world.