SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS AND THE ECO-FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE
Keywords:
sustainability, ecofeminism, caring, green economics, marginal utility, Jevons paradox, kabash, rada, solidarity, community careAbstract
Sustainability ethics banks on the program of sustainable development. Sustainable development, however, is riddled with ambivalence (with the weak form or economic sustainability and the strong form or world sustainability) which renders its normative claim questionable. This paper brings into surface this ambivalence, critiques the weak form of sustainability as untenable and endorses strong sustainability substantiated by the principle of care in eco-feminist ethics. Using the ecofeminist practice and language of care, sustainability is challenged to take a serious turn to individual and collective accountability and political will that reinterprets the Biblical notion of rada (dominion) as a capacity to Care. The objective is to emphasize the viability of a sustainable world via the ethics of care and to mitigate the importance of economic or weak sustainability if we care to preserve our natural capital for generations to come.
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