BACKGROUND Utilitarianism uplifts ‘the greatest happiness principle’ and asks us

BACKGROUNDUtilitarianism uplifts ‘the greatest happiness principle’ and asks us to measure the consequences of our actions above all else. 

But then the next question arrives, who and what counts as consequential, especially as we consider large-scale problems such as climate injustice?

In one of this week’s readings, philosopher Kyle Whyte reflects on the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of place in this world:

Is there a succinct way to convey an Indigenous perspective on climate justice that makes all these connections?

Perhaps a story of vessels can be created to describe Indigenous climate justice. 

Stories of vessels, such as ships, canoes and boats, are often created to describe the relationships among different societies who share land, water and air.

Buckminster Fuller’s “spaceship earth” flies through space without the possibility of getting more fuel and supplies, illustrating dependence on finite resources (Fuller, 2008).

Garrett Hardin described rich countries as lifeboats surrounded by poor people swimming in the surrounding oceans – there is only so much room on the lifeboat for poor people as environmental and economic conditions deteriorate (Hardin, 1974).

Martin Luther King, Jr., in an attempt to motivate respect for diversity and justice in the U.S., said the widely quoted phrase “We may have come to these shores on different ships, but we are now all in the same boat” (3).

Instead of the spaceship or lifeboat, Whyte offers an allegory featuring canoes, aircraft carriers, and hovercrafts; “[t]he pool of waters and sky are the earth system at broad and local scales.”

For him (and Hoover), the earth system is not destined to be rendered a wasteland (the tragedy of the commons) because of humanity’s unchecked greed–the earth system is abundant, and human cultures are adaptive.

The real problem has to do with the design of the aircraft carriers and hovercrafts.

Ask yourself as you read, are we adrift on a lifeboat and doomed to violence, hoarding, and gorging as we fight for survival? 

Or are other stories possible?MATERIALSGarrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor. Limited time? Read these sections: 

the introduction, Adrift in a Moral Sea, Multiplying the Rich and the Poor, Population Control the Crude Way, Overloading the Environment.

Kyle Powys Whyte, Way Beyond the Lifeboat,The biggest priority for your reading:

Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed RematriationKey concepts: lifeboat ethics, the tragedy of the commons (see Elinor Ostrom for critique), anthropogenic (human-caused), living relatives/other-than-human, climate injustice, collective continuance, eradication and assimilation, reproductive justice, environmental justice, seed sovereignty, repatriation, traditional foodwaysPROMPTChoose 2-3 quotes from our readings that were most thought-provoking for you and explain why.Readings:

Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor. Limited time? Read these sections:

the introduction, Adrift in a Moral Sea, Multiplying the Rich and the Poor, Population Control the Crude Way, and Overloading the Environment.Kyle Powys Whyte, Way Beyond the Lifeboat,The biggest priority for your reading:

Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed RematriationPlease write the answer in VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE.No plagiarism should be found.

Please let me know which quotes you choose.

Please take your time to go over all the articles provided and write the answer accordingly.