Abstract
The article explores the environmental issues of mankind being a negative consequence of unrestrained scientific and technological progress. Environmental issues have become global because they have reached a level that threatens the possibility of life on Earth. More and more scientists are becoming aware of the need to find new moral and ethical regulations that can change the consumer attitude to nature, help them to realize their responsibility towards it. It suggests the idea of the emergence and formation of a new ethics – the ethics of responsibility. That is, modern moral and ethical principles should not only allow humanity to enjoy all the benefits of scientific and technological civilization, but also to warn against the foreseeable possible threats.
Highlights
The environmental issues of mankind, which arose in the last century, at the beginning of the new XXI century, reached such a level that they threatened the possibility of further existence of life on Earth and human survival
Recognizing the fact that scientific and technological progress has undesirable negative consequences, among which environmental issues are not in the last place, leads scientists to the need to find new moral and ethical regulations that can change the consumer attitude to nature, to realize their responsibility towards it. This leads to the idea of the emergence and formation of a new ethics – the ethics of responsibility, which will become the basis for the formation of environmental ethics, and a space for the development of new ethical and environmental paradigms for solving environmental issues in different fields
The Club of Rome is one of the first non-governmental international organizations, which focused its attention on such issues: can the environment be preserved at regional and global levels as well as economic equilibrium, the sustainability of social development and comprehensive natural resources, if the use and consumption of energy and raw materials in industrialized countries will continue to take the easiest way, guided only by narrow economic interests? Well-known reports at the time drew the attention of ordinary people and leaders to the “difficulties of mankind”, which A
Summary
The environmental issues of mankind, which arose in the last century, at the beginning of the new XXI century, reached such a level that they threatened the possibility of further existence of life on Earth and human survival Under such circumstances, the need to search for such new moral and ethical orientations, in which life itself and its preservation will be of paramount value, has lost its relevance, and acquired a new meaning. In the likelihood of its planetary scale and its consequences for humans, ethical principles must first be discovered, on the basis of which new responsibilities can be deduced from the new power of man This is the “heuristics of fear”: only the alleged distortion of a person helps to understand a man who must be preserved. This newlyinterpreted duty may be comprehended as the concept of responsibility, as mentioned in the previous work (Skyba, 2014: 71)
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