Educational Proposals for an Environmental Ethics

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 11 - 19, 31.12.2019

Carlos Sousa Reis Maria Formosinho

Abstract

The authors
discuss how the current ecological imbalance became a widespread concern, referring
to the non-compliance with international and national conventions that induced the
understanding of a global co-responsibility in finding a planetary solution. It
is also analyzed how environmental ethics came to enshrine non-human rights, while
transmuting the demand of human solidarity to the various inhabitants from the
multiple ecosystems, thus stressing the importance of a collective incumbency
towards Nature. Furthermore, they analyze why such ecological co-responsibility
requires an educational response pointing to a values´ sharing process, which invites
to a change in the field of economic growth and societal development.  As authors try to show, it is, therefore,
wise to strive for developing an ingrained concern regarding environmental issues,
namely, sustainability, relying on education to promote a teleological sense.

Keywords

Environment, ecology, ethics, education

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