Eco-Communitarianism: An African Perspective

Bassey Samuel Akpan; Okpe .; Timothy Adie

doi:10.37591/rrjoe.v7i3.1513

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It is an undeniable cliché that the world at large and Africa in particular is facing serious environmental problems such as deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, wetlands destruction, poaching as well as global warming. These problems are mainly caused by economic pressure for industrialization, technological advancement, population growth, poverty and ignorance. Western moral speculations like deep ecology, land ethic, ecofeminism and as well as scientific approaches methodologies have been employed in other to solve this problem. However, these theories have been proven not to be very much effective. African eco-communitarianism as a hypothesis, implanted on indigenous information framework can contribute to supply a local-developed answer for our current environmental issues. For Africa, environmental ethics is metaphysically embedded in what it means to be or to exist. Consequently, environmental ethics should be understood as stretching from the individual being to involve the communities of other persons, nonhuman persons as well the environment. Keyword: legislation, environmental ethics, environmentalismCite this ArticleBassey Samuel Akpan, Okpe, Timothy Adie, Eco-Communitarianism: An African Perspective. Research & Reviews: Journal of Ecology. 2018; 7(3): 8–15p.

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