Ecological Issues in Liberal Ideology

Abstract

The study analyzes the concept of environmental issues in liberalism. The author focuses on the value changes in the ideology of liberalism, as well as on the evolutionary change in the perception of ecology in it. Possible ways of combining values of environmentalism and liberalism are established by identifying the contradictions between them. In the conclusion, alternatives — the utilitarian hierarchy of the rights of nature, greening liberalism (based on the resource approach) and liberal environmentalism — are formed as a reaction of liberal ideology to the environmental movement and the environmental crisis.