ABSTRACT
Environmental ethics starts with human concerns for a decent, safe, supporting environment, and some think this shapes the ethics from start to fi nish. Environmental quality is necessary for quality of human life. Humans dramatically rebuild their environments; still, their lives, even when fi lled with artifacts, are lived in a natural ecology where resources-soil, air, water, photosynthesis, climate-are matters of life and death. Culture and nature have entwined destinies, similar to the way minds are inseparable from bodies. So, ethics needs to be applied to the environment.
