McKibben,
Lustgarten, Kusnetz all have a common goal; to decrease the amount of environmental damage done by humanity. In the article listed above, JJ Steinburg discusses environmental ethics. Even though it was written over more than a decade ago, the same principles Steinburg preach are vital today. He discusses pesticides and their negative effects on people. His main them is the unethical treatmeant of nature just as the authors discussed in class. They all know that the world could be a better place if people were educated on the matter.
I agree that we the same ethics needed to control pesticides are needed in the environmental issues today. Fracking has been allowed through the business aspect by creating domestic jobs and lowering dependency on foreign oil, but at the cost to the environment. Although pesticides still harm the environment, they have come a long way since the 1990's. Will we be able to say the same thing about fracking in 20 years?
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