Environmental ethics and philosophical frameworks

Environmental Ethics

Evaluation of effort of Policy Makers in Promoting Environmental Ethics

Moore and Nelson discuss in their book the moral affirmation concerning the ethical issues, and call the people to honor their moral responsibility concerning the environmental ethics. In the contemporary environment, people need to demonstrate their moral and intellectual responsibilities concerning the global ethical consensus. Essentially, global crisis is real and there is a global scientific consensus regarding the dangerous aspect of the climate change, which is generally harmful to people.

The focus of this paper is to explore the environmental ethics. The environmental ethics is a global phenomenon that needs to be implemented to address the problem of climate change and carbon emission.

Environmental Ethics

Scientists globally continue to reveal the evidence of environmental degradation that consequently lead to global climate change, which are dangerous to human health. Despite the dangerous aspect of climate change, policy makers are still unable to create an effective policy that will avert the dangerous aspect of climate change. However, an affirmation strategy to avert the climate change is to enhance moral responsibility. While the western societies have facts, which include prediction, the scientific reports and ecological systems, however, moral discussion is still sparse within the western society.

Moore and Nelson attempts to inculcate moral and value aspirations that could shape value of people in order to live a decent life. The first step in enhancing moral value is to invite people in joining ethical discussion from people of different ages, profession and worldviews. The author point out that "almost all of these extraordinary, generous people agreed to write, setting aside their own projects, diverting energy from their political campaigns or their own climate actions or their fight against illness." (Moore and Nelson xviii).The point-of-view of all the writers reveals that humans are part of ecological system and human need to delicately enhance the balance of the earth system to enhance the richness of the earth.

Although, the argument of the authors is sound concerning the environment ethics, however, the authors fail to reveal the efforts of the North and South countries in addressing the problem of climate change in order to enhance the environmental ethics. Essentially, many advanced countries especially the United States and the United Kingdom have understood the importance of climate changes. Thus, these countries have made series of laws to promote environmental ethics in order to address the problem of climate change. Although, the western countries have tried to enhance effective environmental ethics, these countries still face impediment in enhancing environmental ethics at a global scale. The absence of a common ethical framework between the North and South countries is one of the most significant impediments to arriving at a global framework to environmental ethics.