Environmental Ethics: The Ethics Of The Human Environment

“Sustainability”

Definition of sustainability

The need to examine again the current model brings to question mainly on ethics of human action, which obviously provides no direct solution for all the problems of the world, but it provides the moral basis for a better individual and global order (Laszlo, 2002 ).

Environmental ethics is a relatively new field of philosophical ethics. It deals with describing the values brought by the non-human natural world, and to prescribe a connected response in order to maintain ethical, restore, preserving the values (Light, Rolston III, 2003).

There are several approaches to environmental ethics, including the anthropocentric, which considers the values as generated by men, and focuses on men. Another

The first one, also called deep ecology, is an invitation to change our cognitive attitude to the world around us, which leads human beings to see themselves not as separate unit from nature, but as part of it (Naess, 1973).

Ecofeminism sees in the human domination of nature the most mature form of the patriarchal society. But this relational model domain brings women and nature to be subject to a "twin domain", the result of the same logic of supremacy (Shiva, 1993).

Environmental Pragmatism (restoration thesis) sees ecological restoration as a necessary remedy environmental damage done in the past (eg. Remediation of contaminated territories, repopulation of the fauna and flora of an area). The human race is obliged to replace what hurts (the principle of restitution). These positions show that solving environmental problems is mainly a political challenge, which aims to build the foundations of democratic action for the protection of shared

Here rely the difference and therefore the need to create a different programme: sustainable biotechnology. It aims to develop new biotechnological solutions for tomorrow’s society, starting from the fact that actual natural resources should be exploited in a smart way. The development of green technologies is a highly prioritised and rapidly growing area, which is fundamental for the development of a sustainable society. Mineral oil still constitutes the most important source of liquid fuels, plastics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Within one generation, it is important to find out some alternative resources in order to compensate the depletion of mineral oil, but also to deal with greenhouse gases and the associated climate effects. Biomass is assumed to be the most important replacement for oil as an industrial raw material. Oil refineries will be replaced by bio refineries, where the processes are based upon microorganisms, enzymes and chemical