The Natural World

Students may study one or more issues concerning the moral problems relating to the natural world, including environmental pollution, global warming, deforestation and farming methods, extinction and endangerment of species, issues raised by recycling and other environmentally friendly lifestyle choices, habitat conservation, national and international environmental initiatives and the relationship of animals to man, for example zoos, circuses, hunting and use of animals in research.

Students may examine these issues from one or more ethical perspectives, religious or secular, as well as considering principles which may be applied to any of them, such as ideas of stewardship, responsibility, gratitude, participation in creation, humanitarianism, the relationship between the environment and economics.