THE ECONOMIC EFFECTIVENESS
AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHOICES
The production of welfare and the
defence of rights
Introduction
1. Economic efficiency and
environmental choices
2. The principles of the green
economy
3. The distributive justice in
environmental field
4. The ethical orientations
1. The economic discussion is
based on the EFFICIENCY
To get the maximum welfare possible from
a cetrain patrimony of resources
But the interest of whom must be
considered?
1. The economic discussion is
based on the EFFICIENCY
That of the living individuals or also that of
the future generations?
In what measure to consider the
distributive equity and the
environmental quality?
2. Principles of “green”
economy
1) It is necessary to overcome the HOMO
ECONOMICUS ‘s point of view from the
individual desires to the collective needs
2) The economic development must be
supported, or rather we must allow the
economic system to be reproduced in time
3) The growth of the economic value must
weigh less than the environmental
resources
3. The Positions of fields
- Technocentrism of abundance :
. Technology is able to overcome
every increased environmental limit
. The market must be able to act
freely and without ties
3. The positions of field
- Easy-going technocentrism:
. The action of the market, in its
positive aspect, will make the economic
agents ‘responsible’ in order to preserve
the
critical natural capital
- ecocentrism community
. It is necessary to stop the economic
development to consolidate an
economy of static state
- radical ecocentrism
. To transform the economy in a system
of the least collecting of resources ,
reducing the level of economic activity
4. Ecological principle of
distributive justice
Equity of the transfer of property
between the persons and in time
The future generations have the same
right in the welfare
INTERGENERATION SOCIAL
CONTRACT
But why don’t we consider the
interests:
- of the animals
- of the plants
- of the kinds
- of the whole ecosystem?
It is necessary then to protect the
weakest positions either at
intra/inter-generation level
5. Ethical orientations
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Teleologia: cost-benefits evaluation
(utilitarism)
- Incoherent with the support!
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Contractualism
- How to protect the weak
contractual parts?
5. Ethics orientations
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Approach of rights
- to whom attribute the rights of
the
future generations ?
Bioetica: all human beings have a
moral diginity
- how to listen to non- human points of
view?