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Can African Environmental Ethics Contribute to Environmental Policy in Africa?

机译:非洲环境伦理学可以为非洲的环境政策做出贡献吗?

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African policy makers have ignored indigenous environmental ethics. The relation between responsible use of the planet's resources and ethics remains apparent in many cultural and social systems of traditional Africa. The local people have developed detailed interactive knowledge of the natural environment, and preserved biodiversity resources, which they have nurtured and developed since time immemorial. African environmental ethics is based on the worldviews of the African people, and can contribute to biodiversity conservation and environmental rehabilitation and protection. It can enlighten policy makers by providing a theoretical foundation for sustainable living. Furthermore, African environmental ethics can expose environmental injustice committed by different groups in Africa, and assist local communities to secure environmental justice and protect their environment. It can create awareness within countries and globally about the actions of transnational corporations, irresponsible countries, and local industries which damage the environment. African environmental ethics may also alert the African people to understand the long-range effects of environmental degradation that are beyond the purview of local people and understanding of which is otherwise unavailable. Modern environmental knowledge about global environmental problems will provide peasant farmers and pastoralists an opportunity to look at their own local concerns and issues within the context of a greater global perspective. Only by involving peasant farmers, pastoralists, and indigenous people at the grass-roots level will African policy makers have the political strength and will to implement serious changes needed to address serious environmental and developmental problems. If policy makers continue to neglect the major contributors to biodiversity conservation and environmentally friendly practices,environmental policies will not have significant impacts on development and environmental protection in Africa.
机译:非洲决策者无视土著人的环境道德。在传统非洲的许多文化和社会系统中,负责任地使用地球资源与道德之间的关系仍然很明显。自远古以来,当地人就对自然环境有了详尽的互动知识,并保护了生物多样性资源。非洲环境伦理基于非洲人民的世界观,可以为生物多样性保护以及环境的恢复和保护做出贡献。通过为可持续生活提供理论基础,可以启发决策者。此外,非洲环境伦理可以揭露非洲不同群体所犯下的环境不公,并协助当地社区确保环境正义并保护其环境。它可以在国家内部和全球范围内提高对跨国公司,不负责任的国家以及破坏环境的当地产业的行为的认识。非洲环境伦理学也可能提醒非洲人民了解环境退化的长期影响,这超出了当地人民的能力范围,否则就无法理解。关于全球环境问题的现代环境知识将为农民和牧民提供一个在更广阔的全球视野内审视自己的地方关注和问题的机会。非洲决策者只有让基层农民,牧民和土著人民参与进来,才能拥有政治实力,并愿意采取重大变革来解决严重的环境与发展问题。如果决策者继续忽略生物多样性保护和环境友好做法的主要贡献者,那么环境政策将不会对非洲的发展和环境保护产生重大影响。

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    《Environmental ethics》 |2014年第1期|31-61|共31页
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    Workineh Kelbessa;

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    Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box 150012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;

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