Justice Across Generations: Environmental Ethics

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 21 Feb 2006 at 1:30 pm
Location:Oak Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
Categories:Lectures
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Panel: Clark Wolf, (moderator) Director of Bioethics Program, ISU Dept. of Philosophy; Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness

What does it mean to say that the earth belongs "in usufruct" to the generations of the living? Usufructuary rights are rights to use and manage, and to earn profit from the fruitfulness of the earth. But such rights also include obligations to manage wisely, to protect the basic resource and pass it on undiminished and undamaged. Have we failed to meet this obligation, and what debts or disadvantages are we passing on to our children? In this panel, Clark Wolf, the director of the ISU Bioethics Program, will lead a discussion on the ethics and obligations between generations.