Environmental Ethics:Animal Rights

Animal rights are concerned with the status of animals, whereas environmental ethics concerns itself with the relationship to the environment. I will show how the existence of animal ethics depends on the existence of environmental ethics. I will prove this by showing that such philosophers who have practiced animal rights such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and Paul Taylor are limited because they are individualistic. This means they are limited to animal concerns, and nothing else. However, with environmental ethics such philosophers as Aldo Leopold, Laura Westra, and Arne Naess look at…