{"title":"The ethics of human impacts and the future of the earth’s ecosystems: Introduction","authors":"D. Pauly, K. Stergiou","doi":"10.3354/ESEP00154","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this Theme Section, a selection of the International Ecology Institute Prize laure- ates and authors of the Excellence in Ecology books present their thoughts on the ethics of our impact on, and the future of, the earth's ecosystems. The 5 essays address various issues: (1) the longer-term role of humans on the earth and (2) the earth's capacity for supporting humans; (3) the diversity of microbes surrounding us and the allergic desensitization they provide and (4) our need for respecting the world around us; (5) which is gradually being compromised by our inabil- ity to act as reasonable stewards of the earth. In addition, the ethics of overfishing as well as new issues and questions raised are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":40001,"journal":{"name":"Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3354/ESEP00154","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this Theme Section, a selection of the International Ecology Institute Prize laure- ates and authors of the Excellence in Ecology books present their thoughts on the ethics of our impact on, and the future of, the earth's ecosystems. The 5 essays address various issues: (1) the longer-term role of humans on the earth and (2) the earth's capacity for supporting humans; (3) the diversity of microbes surrounding us and the allergic desensitization they provide and (4) our need for respecting the world around us; (5) which is gradually being compromised by our inabil- ity to act as reasonable stewards of the earth. In addition, the ethics of overfishing as well as new issues and questions raised are briefly discussed.
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