环境伦理的焦点:中国殡葬制度改革的新思路

The Focus in Environmental Ethics:A New Way of Thinking for the Reform of Funeral System in China

中国传统的殡葬土葬利大于弊,它虽然占用土地,但不污染环境,节省能源,属自然回归。现代的火葬有害无益,占用土地,污染环境,滋长了殡葬业的暴利倾向。环境伦理主张新土葬不占用土地,不释放污染物,无能源消耗,美化环境,形成了生物链之间的自然消解与生态平衡。

The Chinese traditional interment form, burial in the ground has both advantages and advantages, and the former outweighs the latter. Although taking up an amount of land, it causes no environmental pollution, saves energy, symbolizing the return to nature. The modern cremation brings nothing good but harm. It takes up more land, pollutes the environment, and promotes the tendency of seeking reap staggering profit in funeral service. So the environmental ethics advocates a new form of burial in the ground, which is of no land - taking, no pollution, no energy - consuming. Moreover, it can beautify the environment and form natural digestion and ecological balance between biological chains.