ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on how the ethical values evolve in the climate change era, or what has now been defined as the 'Anthropocene epoch', the age in which the human imprint can change the geological destiny of coming centuries in ways adverse to the health and well-being of all forms of planetary life, including human life. It argues that ego-centric values are not a sufficient ethical scope in the Anthropocene and that the public institutional justification (PIJ) should integrate eco-centric values. A formal proposal to add the Anthropocene as a formal epoch into the Geological Time Scale was presented to the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society. In the Anthropocene epoch the ego-centric ethic gradually evolves, adding biocentrism and eco-centrism. The Anthropocene epoch requires sustainability ethics a new field of ethics that guides humans to act in a way that respects both the rights of the next generations and the rights of nature.
