ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

The environmental justice movements' deconstructions of traditional environmentalism's approach to ecological justice have led to discussions about whether traditional philosophical theories can be the best way to bring philosophy to environmental questions. Environmental justice movements have been critical of the traditional environmentalism's narrow understanding of ecological justice merely in terms of equity and calls for much more than just distribution. Simultaneously due to the increasing threats of global warming and environmental degradation, development scientists and political theorists have been increasingly focusing on the environmental justice issue in their recent works. In the light of new understandings of dynamic and multidisciplinary studies of the environment, environmental philosophers are also exploring similar questions about the nature of environmental justice with renewed rigor. An increased examination in all such narratives has also played a role in generating renewed interest not only in how we understand our relation with the 'nature', but also our relation to 'others' in social and cultural contexts.