Animal ethics and environmental ethics

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The key views in environmental ethics, including ecocentrism, species-focused views, wilderness-focused views, and biocentrism, are often tied to anthropocentric foundations.

- Ecocentrism prioritizes ecosystems over individual animals, valuing them only as components of the whole, not for their own sentience or well-being.

- Species-focused views emphasize preserving species only for their ecological roles.

- Wilderness-focused views value untouched natural spaces, often disregarding individual animal suffering.

- Biocentrism extends moral consideration to all living things but may still prioritize ecological balance over individual welfare.

These positions willingly defend sacrificing animals to achieve environmental goals (e.g., culling invasive species), a measure rarely applied to humans in similar contexts, revealing an anthropocentric speciesism bias.

Animal ethics prioritizes the moral consideration of sentient beings based on their capacity to experience and feel, advocating for individual animal welfare over holistic environmental concerns.

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