Session 2: From Stewardship to Exploitation: How Blurred Morality Fuels the Environmental Crisis
This session will focus on the role of moral uncertainty in shaping human interactions with the natural environment. It explores how blurred ethical judgment can lead to exploitation, unsustainable practices, and environmental degradation. The session also recognizes that access to resources and opportunities for responsible stewardship is unevenly distributed, creating further disparities in environmental engagement. The session will examine strategies for cultivating ethical awareness, collective responsibility, and long-term sustainability, aiming to foster a more balanced and morally informed relationship between humans and nature.
Moderator:
Assoc Prof Dr Kampanad Bhaktikul
Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University
Speakers:
1. Prof Youba Sokona
Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Switzerland
2. Mr Thibault Danjou
International Consultant, Member of the Investment Committee of Phitrust Asia
3. Mr Nnimmo Bassey
Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria
4. Dr Chamniern Vorratnchaiphan
Former Country Representative in Thailand of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
5. Prof Shobhakar Dhakal
Professor in Faculty of Climate Change and Sustainability, Asian Institute of Technology