1. LIFE AT STAKE Endangered Species Natural Resources Water Shortage

2. Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here? “ That depends a good deal on where you want to get to”, said the cat.

9. Environmental & Human Health “ Conditions that ensure that all living things have the best opportunity to reach and maintain their full genetic potential. ” S. Gilbert (1999)

10. The First Bioethicist "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold, 1949, A Sand County Almanac ---------- 1887 - 1948 ---------- Aldo Leopold

11. Bioethics "Biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental priorities for acceptable survival.“ Global Bioethics (1988) -------- 1911 - 2001 -------- Van Rensselaer Potter

12. Some Values 1) Respect - for the needs and rights of this and future generations as well as others who cannot speak for themselves 2) Humility - towards the natural world and our ability to understand it through science 3) Democracy - giving people a voice in matters that affect their lives 4) Responsibility - government’s public trust responsibility to manage the commonwealth for this and future generations. - Individuals’ including industry, obligation to take responsibility for their actions in the world.

13. Ecological Bioethics The challenge To develop an individual and societal ethical framework for decision making that supports the long term maintenance of a globally sustainable ecology

14. Knowledgeable Bioethics “ the knowledge of how to use knowledge for the social good”

15. Socially Responsible