Sustainable Development Environment Ethics And The Ethical Contemplation Of Environmental Problems In Contemporary China

The global environmental crisis has already become the biggest problem to threaten human well-being and development. Environmental Ethics is academic accomplishment made by people after making reflections on the environmental problems and to solve them.Sustainable Development Environment Ethics is a new view of Environment Ethics put forward in the process of researching the Sustainable Development and Environment Ethics. It requires that people solve the environmental problem with the eye of development and view of the coordination on the basis of harmony between humanity and nature. The view of Sustainable Development Environment Ethics is for the purpose of respecting and keeping the ecological environment, the mankind development continuously as footing with future. It guides people to establish ecological awareness of interdependence and harmonious coexistence between man and nature,calls upon people to change the traditional developmental pattern which uses conquest and spoliation toward the natural world as a means and at the cost of resources depletion, and establishes a new kind of ethical relationship between man and nature to solve the environmental crisis faced by human beings,thereby ensure that human society and nature will develop together in harmony.The full text was divided into five parts:Chapter 1-the introduction, expounds era background of research of this text, study current situation both at home and abroad and exposit the research significance of Sustainable Development Environment Ethics. Chapter 2-the ear background and historical origin of Sustainable Development Environment Ethics, introduce the main ideas of environmental ethics which include the environmental ethics thoughts of modern western and ancient China. Furthermore, based on integrating the environmental ethics of modern western and ancient China, the text constructed the theory of environmental ethics that have the united relationship between theory and practice, that is the Sustainable Development Environment Ethics. Chapter 3-the connotation analysis of Sustainable Development Environment Ethics, comprehend the Sustainable Development in terms of the environmental ethics through unscrambling the two words:development and sustainable and analyzing the environmental ethics connotation of Sustainable Development, furthermore, enumerate the four fundamental principles. Chapter 4-the ethical contemplation of environmental problems in China, this text attempts to make an analysis of the operating mode of sustainable development environment ethics and the problems that claim attention in the process of practice after analyzing the main existing problem and possible causes during the development of contemporary China. The last part is epilogue, the induction of primary coverage of this full text, the text is based on the theory of environmental ethics, use the sustainable development view as the criterion for environmental practices and assimilate the essence by means of comparison between the Chinese and western thoughts of environmental ethics to find a new way for the Chinese environmental problems.