Comparing Religious Environmental Ethics to Support Efforts to Achieve Local and Global Sustainability: Empirical Insights Based on a Theoretical Framework

Zagonari, Fabio

doi:10.3390/su12072590

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“…For religious ethics, it ignores primary focuses such as stewardship in Judaism, trusteeship and parsimony in Islam, maintaining equilibrium in Hinduism and Buddhism, and love of neighbors in Christianity. However, future research could refer to other ethical principles and religious precepts depicted by quantity variables within a mathematical framework (e.g., Zagonari, 2018;Zagonari, 2020).…”

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“…Moreover, the theoretical conditions required to apply the representative individual at a country level are satisfied (Zagonari, 2019b). Finally, the original panel dataset for observed (rather than self-stated) pro-environmental behaviors avoids the intention-action and attitude-action gaps (Zagonari, 2020). Figure 1 shows all possible combinations of η and θ that meet the conditions for WS and AG with σ at 1, 2, 3, and 4.…”

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“…Secular ethics focus on our perceived responsibility to nature, perceived responsibility to future generations, perceptions of the relative rights of humans and non-humans, and beliefs in inter-generational and intra-generational equity (Zagonari, 2018). In contrast, religious ethics have a different primary focus in each religion: Judaism focuses on stewardship (here, maximizing the use of resources to achieve the highest sustainable total welfare), Islam focuses on trusteeship and parsimony (here, minimizing the use of resources), Hinduism and Buddhism focus on maintaining equilibrium, and Christianity focuses on love of neighbors (Zagonari, 2020). In particular, Zagonari (2019a) empirically shows that the perception of a sense of duty to nature is a beneficial but unfeasible and unreliable way to achieve sustainability in developed countries; in contrast, the perception of a duty to future generations is detrimental to sustainability in both developed and developing countries; belief in the rights of future generations is a beneficial and reliable but unfeasible way to achieve sustainability in developed countries; intra-generational inequality is detrimental, and inter-generational inequality is essential, to achieving sustainability in both developed and developing countries; in contrast, all secular ethics are unfeasible and unreliable in developing countries.…”

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Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons

Zagonari

2020

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This paper analytically characterizes the four main environmental sustainability paradigms (i.e., WS, weak sustainability; AG, a-growth; DG, de-growth; and SS, strong sustainability) by introducing uncertainty about future preferences for consumption and future technologies. SS represents an ethical approach because of its maximum aversion to intergenerational inequality of resources, whereas DG depicts preference changes, AG depicts technology changes, and WS represents the reference paradigm without accounting for preference or technology changes. By comparing the costs and benefits of these paradigms, solutions derived for the whole parameter domains based on data for a globally representative individual suggest that whenever environmental sustainability is pursued for welfare reasons within a utilitarian perspective (i.e., WS, AG, DG), it is not worth pursuing. In contrast, if environmental sustainability is achieved for ethical reasons within an egalitarian perspective (i.e., SS), it is worth pursuing, even with an increased world population. In terms of feasibility (i.e., whether there are realistic parameter values such that a given sustainability paradigm can achieve its goal), solutions are ranked ethics > preference > technology (i.e., SS > DG > AG), whereas WS is unfeasible. Thus, WS, AG, and DG are inconsistent sustainability paradigms, SS empirically solves the theoretical dispute on absolute rights, and environmental sustainability must be treated as an ethical issue. A conceptual discussion about environmental ethics and a statistical analysis based on panel data at a country level support the same insights. In terms of reliability (i.e., whether there are national policies or international agreements which can support a feasible sustainability paradigm), SS could be enforced by a global environmental agreement, supported by 66/55% of governments (i.e., top-down approach) and by 56/51% of citizens (i.e., bottom-up approach), in the most certain/uncertain scenarios, respectively.

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Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons

Zagonari

2020

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“…Sebagaimana pesan al-Quran dalam surah al-A"râf ayat 85, Islam meminta manusia untuk memanfaatkan alam, sekaligus mengecam manusia yang mengeksploitasi dan merusak alam [42]. Pesan al-Quran di atas sebenarnya demi kemaslahatan manusia itu sendiri karena pelestarian alam dan lingkungan berimplikasi positif terhadap kesejahteraan dan peningkatan taraf hidup manusia [43].…”

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Pendidikan Islam dan Konservasi Lingkungan

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Humans are faced with some terrible natural disasters which endanger their lives and the biosphere. These are inseparable from human activities which lead to global warming. Therefore, it takes conscious effort to carry out environmental conservation and this would be more effective when carried out by all parties. Islamic education is one of the efforts aimed at conserving the environment owing to the fact it builds awareness on its importance and is a journey pioneered for the survival of the next generation. Education helps to understand various values and concepts needed to develop the attitudes and skills towards building mutual relations between humans, culture and the environment. Through education, humans form attitudes which help to have a concern for the environment.

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“…Zagonari menyimpulkan bahwa agama-agama dapat terus mempromosikan transformasi kepercayaan dan sikap untuk menghasilkan nilai-nilai dan praktik yang lebih cenderung mengarah pada keberlanjutan. Pendekatan semacam itu akan mendukung pengambilan keputusan di bawah ketidakpastian yang menjadi ciri masalah lingkungan ketika prinsip-prinsip sekuler, seperti keadilan atau tanggungjawab tidak memadai atau tidak layak [35]. Kedua penelitian sebelumnya diperkuat oleh kesimpulan riset Mohseni dan Shiravand yang menyatakan bahwa meskipun perkembangan alam terjadi secara alami, tetapi perkembangan alam tidak hanya memiliki warna materi melainkan peristiwa alam berevolusi dalam konteks metafisik [36].…”

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Etika Lingkungan Perspektif Hukum Islam

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Idris³

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The Islamic governs the religious adaptation according to the principles and guidelines designed to conform with practical reasons to discover the wish of the divine continuously. The framework of Islamic law is clearly described in the rule of maqasid al-syariah in the form of legislation to accommodate the situation and conditions. Further study in the Quran and hadith discovered that Islam has specific principals and rules that demand environmental maintenance. This research aims to reveal the direction and regulations of environmental management comprehensively according to Islamic law using the philosophical, phenomenology, and normative approaches. Some important principles of environmental ethics in Islam are portrayed in the examples that appear to develop new Islamic thinking in environmental ethics. Due to the common future and possibilities as well as the threats with the same bad results, all self-correction process requires feedback from an Islamic perspective on environmental maintenance. Due to the global impact of the environmental crisis, cooperation from all parties is required to prevent the unnecessary pose of environmental hazards, and existing environmental hazards must be best avoided. This research shows how the Islamic principles on environmental ethics work as a mechanism to bring normative change and review the human diagnostic capacity to evaluate different use of natural resources, including the ethics of environmental maintenance.

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Comparing Religious Environmental Ethics to Support Efforts to Achieve Local and Global Sustainability: Empirical Insights Based on a Theoretical Framework

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons

Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons

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