Ignoring population’s ecological role is a moral omission

Evidence

This requires slowing the rate of population growth, stabilizing it, and then reducing it to a level that is environmentally sustainable. High-consumption lifestyles that wreak havoc on the environment and harm other people’s lives are a moral issue of commission. Evading the influential role of population growth in environmental degradation is a moral issue of omission. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2582

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the omission-versus-commission moral framework Bandura applies to population and consumption.
• XREF: Moral omissions as rationalization parallels the vault’s claims about how complicity in harmful policy is concealed as inaction. — connects to: Population growth offsets green technology gains and is a taboo topic for ecology
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2582