ABSTRACT
Environmental ethics, it seems, cannot contribute all that much to a reduction in environmental pollution. If this is indeed the case, why is there such frequent and detailed discussion on what the basis for these ethics should be? Time and again in popular literature and Sunday speeches, ethics is cited as a means to influence the behaviour of individuals, and, on a larger scale, the moral will of societies, such that their political classes treat nature properly, that is with concern for preservation.
