Reflections about the demographic problem from environmental ethics

Abstract

The historical context and certain aspects of the demographic problem are considered, in a world wide scale, on the basis of the approach recently utilized by relevant international actors. The question is wheter the content of the documents produced do encompass the entiry complexity of the issue - reflexive, axiologic and environmental ethics included- in a comprensive manner. It is concluded that those documents do not approach the demographic issue in an integral way: they are restricted to the sexual and reproductive approach.