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Environmental Ethics
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Overview

Duration

5 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Environmental Ethics
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Environmental Ethics
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate upon completion
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Environmental Ethics
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Course details

More about this course
  • This five-week course from the Adam Smith Centre will introduce you to environmental ethics as well as different perspectives to uncover the link between ethics and environmentalism
  • By the end of the course, you’ll understand how morality and ethics drive environmental activism
  • On this course, you’ll examine how moral beliefs can provoke a sense of responsibility or environmental consciousness, and how this spurs activism
  • You’ll examine contrasting perspectives to analyse how ethics influences each approach
  • With this knowledge, you’ll also expand your own views and find an approach that aligns with your beliefs
  • By exploring different ideologies such as deep ecology and eco-socialism, you’ll develop an intrinsic understanding of how humanity can repair this damage and create a more sustainable future
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Environmental Ethics
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction to humanity and the natural environment

Course introduction

Environmental ethics

End of Week 1

The science of climate change

Introduction to Week 2

The science of climate and climate change

End of Week 2

Religion and climate change

Introduction to Week 3

Religion and climate change

End of Week 3

Deep ecology and eco-socialism

Introduction to Week 4

Deep ecology and eco-socialism

End of Week 4

Eco-modernism

Introduction to Week 5

Eco-modernism

End of Course

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