A Brief History of Enviroethics and Its Challenges

Environmental ethics has emerged during the early 1970s, when environmentalistsstarted urging philosophers to consider the philosophical aspects of environmentalproblems. environmental ethics considers the ethical relationships between humanityand nonپ]human world. the union of concerned scientists, a group of over two thousandsscientists, has concluded that climatic change is beyond dispute, and already changing ourenvironment. environmental instability portend ill for public health and wellپ]being. thispaper attempts to apply ethical theories to support environmental concerns and providesmoral grounds to preserve the earth's environment. this article documents consensusamong environmental philosophers as given by synthesis data provided via survey amongarticles, websites, and books by the keywords: environment, ethics, health and crises. thefield has come to exert significant influence over a large number of human sciencedisciplines in relation to environmental sustainability and human wellbeing.environmental ethics focuses on the possibility of the identification of human ego withnature, means the larger ecological self deserves respect, too. environmental ethicsexpands the boundaries of ethics to include the nature and considers its sustainability toensure human wellbeing. this study emphasizes mainly on a brief history ofenvironmental ethics and its protection against damage. environmental changes andextreme weather events in plus to species distinction and a growth of diseases areimpossible to hide and ought to be impossible to ignore. the health decline associatedwith various forms of these changes is continuing. it raises crucial issues aboutenvironmental justice.