The climate emergency is the greatest threat facing humanity. Almost every discipline and future career path - from business to technology, engineering, and politics - will force students to confront ethical concerns as they relate to the environment, natural resources, and sustainable growth. Written in a consistent, readable voice, Byron Williston's Environmental Ethics for Canadians demystifies the main thinkers and questions central to environmental ethics, without overwhelming students with detail or philosophy-specific jargon, showcasing the complex philosophical and ethical questions that arise as we interact with the natural world and work to stem climate change in an accessible way.

A hybrid textbook and reader, combining classic essays by leaders in environmental philosophy with contemporary selections by emerging voices in the field - including original pieces commissioned expressly for this volume - this text provides students with the foundational concepts and new perspectives they need to truly understand our changing relationship to the environment. While instructors often find it difficult to animate environmental ethics and demonstrate its career relevance to their students, many of whom are non-philosophy majors, this edition's new feature boxes help illustrate the way philosophical thought and ideas have been utilized in the world and in Canada to create change, showing students the practicality of learning these ideas for their future careers. Incorporating Indigenous perspectives throughout, including a full chapter devoted to Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as expanded content on the Anthropocene, biodiversity loss, and climate change, this volume brings philosophical debate to today's greatest opportunities and challenges. Global in outlook, but Canadian in focus, this ground-up Canadian text provides students examples and case studies from their own backyard to engage them and propel their thinking outward.

Byron Williston is professor of philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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"Environmental Ethics for Canadians is a useful and well organized introduction to environmental ethics, with thought-provoking editorial analysis, topical and up-to-date case studies drawn from a Canadian perspective, and wide selection of classic and contemporary texts." - Morgan Tait, University of Waterloo

"Environmental Ethics for Canadians is an excellent text for courses in environmental ethics. It is accessible to students with or without a philosophical background. The commentary provided along with the primary readings is especially good at helping students navigate concepts, issues and ideas on their own, while also raising points that form the basis of engaging class discussions. It is clear, well-written and uses relevant and very timely case studies to help students see how theoretical and philosophical issues apply to their everyday lives. It is an excellent resource and I highly recommend it." - Rana Ahmad, University of British Columbia

"Environmental Ethics for Canadians is an accessible and engaging yet rigorous text that explores the key issues and case studies in environmental ethics from a Canadian perspective." - Stephanie Rutherford, Trent University