THE ETHICAL RESPONSE

 Introduction

“Earth is our mother whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth." Environmental degradation, even though, is not a new problem there are much hue and cry made on its impact today everywhere. In our epoch of scientific and industrial revolution, when the whole earth is becoming the object of man’s activity as a single whole, it is reasonable to speak of the need for ecological or environmental ethic.  It is always inclusive, so it has become a global crisis. In addition it must be ethically evaluated since it harms the whole universe. 

 Environmental Ethics

            It is branch of special ethics which studies the rightfulness and wrongfulness of a human action that is done knowingly and willingly. Environmental ethic is defined as a scientific study which applies the principles in ethics to resolve the problems and challenges related to the correlation between human beings and the environment.