ABSTRACT

Man is a specie of living organism that prides himself on the possession of intellectual power and ingenuity to change himself and his environment through his actions. The environment is in a terrible ecological crisis, a crisis resulting from human culture, political system, social system, technology and economics. Ecological wisdom is the knowledge of the four distinct subjects, their interactions, the circumstances surrounding them and the ways to harness their interelationships to obtain optimal development. Every society loves economic growth and expansion, high standard of living and physical development. Its people are apt to be fascinated by good roads, packaged food, treated water and decent housing environment. From the single subject, protection of the environment against rapid degeneration, environmentalism developed several faces, in respect of instruments of diagnosis and assessment values, involving several fields with peculiar hypothesis and theories that strive to edge out each other.