Challenges and Limits of the Environmental Ethics in an Overpopulated World

Abstract

The challenges of the Environmental Ethics in an over populated world, are not trying perforce into pleading for a higher birthrate control, rather for a conscious self-control of the actual holistic damage. It becomes substantial to probe the precaution that it is needed to have in relation to the balance in the adaequatio between the increase in the number of individuals that could be preserved indefinitely in the environment, from whom would generate a greater damage. That this last self-destructive tendency that has driven mankind to follow a road very similar to the one travelled by other species before its eventual collapse, drive us to think that as species we have not been capable of dimensioning the incidence of speciesism in the inner development of the growing human demography, and even less to comprehend the lesson that the other living being, that reproduced over and above of what the ecosystem could assimilate, have left us, generating the devastating consequences that today we can get to know and to feel sorrow.