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Community Concept:
Environmental Ethics is based on community concept, the concept that is widely used by mankind in their daily life. Having the philosophy of community concept mankind has evolved various social laws and regulation to be followed by its members. Each community may evolve its own social ethics based their beliefs and customs which would enhance the social harmony between its members. Community Policy is created based on the mutual cooperation between Community Participation and Government Agencies.
The Conservation Theory has the following three aspects -
a) A state of harmony between man and environment,
b) Based on community participation,
c) Introduction of any law (Govt.) becomes effective depending on community participation
Land use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics (commercial value conflict) were a century ago, when King used his subjects for his personal gain and strength. If one non-economic category is threatened and if we happen to admire it we try to give economic importance to save it. The evidence happens to be economic to validate its existence. On the other hand, if we do not like its appearance and has no economic value, we do not consider its right to live. For example, a domestic lizard, a spider, or bats eat insects. We do not consider the right for their existence simply because we cannot attach economic gain or profit with their existence, and therefore they have not right to live where they belong. Thus, the ethical attitude correlates with to something that we can see, feel, understand, love, admire, or otherwise have faith (religions, ritualistic).
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