ABSTRACT
Ethical considerations can be described as centring on attempts to arrive at well-based practical moral standards that should guide individual or public life usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues such as honesty and prudence. Meanwhile, some ethical theorists insist that drastic changes in the global environment so unambiguously point to a fundamental limitation in the dominant philosophies that underwrite the relationship between human beings as well as their relationship to the environment and its non-human content. The focus of environmental ethics is to articulate what ought to be the moral relationship of human beings to non-human nature as well as the moral relationship among human beings in the context of their relations to the environment. Conventional environmental policy studies, as noted, present environmental problems mainly as a challenge for science and technology, law and economics.
