Ecocentric Ethic Analysis

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If you’ve ever eaten salmon, had a fish as a pet, or care about the environment what-so-ever, you should probably be aware of the man made dangers that plague many of our waterways. These dangers are known as dams and they have helped cause Upper Willamette River Chinook salmon and steelhead to be either threatened or endangered. Carolyn Merchant writes in her essay: "Fish First!: The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management," explaining that, “The ecocentric ethic is based on the idea that fish are equal to other organisms-including humans-and therefore deserve moral consideration.”(Merchant pg. 301) This ecocentric ethic is a better way to look at the environment we live in and the organisms we coexist with. While some people may see the survival of a species of fish to not concern humans, be a part of the circle of life, and to not be as important as the electricity gained from Hydroelectric dams, you may also look at the situation through the more environmentally friendly lense of ecocentric ethic being that since we caused, and are still causing, the problem, we should take responsibility for …show more content…
Army Corps of Engineers, there are about seventy thousand dams in the U.S and two hundred and fifty thousand rivers. Many of those are Hydroelectric dams that generate almost nine percent of the country’s electricity. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that “In the Pacific Northwest alone, hydropower provides about two-thirds of the region's electricity supply.” Hydropower is one of the most renewable resources being used today because it has no impact on air quality, doesn’t produce solid waste, and doesn’t pollute the water being used. What happens is this: a hydroelectric power plant takes the kinetic energy gained by the water flowing downstream and converts it into electricity by forcing the water through a hydraulic turbine connected to a generator. After the water leaves the turbine it returns to a stream or riverbed below the
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