Human relation towards environment "moral and ethics"

Abstract

Environment is the basic need for all the living beings because every necessity for them depends upon it. Unless the environment is protected, the existence of life on the planet would be impossible. That is why environmental issues have become so sensitive and globally important. All people must give their contribution for the betterment of environment. Environmental ethics help define man's moral and ethical obligations toward the environment. But human values become a factor when looking at environmental ethics. Human values are the things that are important to individuals that they then use to evaluate actions or events. In other words, humans assign value to certain things and then use this assigned value to make decisions about whether something is right or wrong. Human values are unique to each individual because not everyone places the same importance on each element of life. The rapid expansion and new breakthroughs in the arena of science and technology have taken humankind into a new age. The developments have both pros and cons. On the one hand, while technological developments have affected almost every aspect of human life, at the other, it has its devastating effect on the nature itself. Thus mankind faces double challenges from modern machines and from saving the nature, the mother earth. All people need to have a common understanding of the role played by human beings in reducing or worsening environmental deterioration. How do people out of different cultures perceive these problems? How do they react to them? The aim of this study is to figure out what factors are most important in explaining different levels of awareness concerning environmental problems and to compare the level of environment related human values as well as the actual behaviour towards environment.

Keywords: Environment, Human Behaviour, Ethics, Earth, Life.