Sustainable Development In Environmental Ethics' Field Of Vision

Since the 20th century, the development of mankind has being threatened because of the global ecological crisis. Based on the deep rethinking of that, mankind put forward the strategic theory of sustainable development.Sustainable development emphasizes the harmonious development of environment, society and economy. It needs not only the realization of policy, technological measures, targets and guarantee of laws, but also the guidance of inherent mechanism of moral and culture. This mechanism is the environmental ethics. Since 1930, western environmental ethics has expanded its ethical objects from man to animal, creature, eco-system, as well as advocated to admit the other species' moral rights. This doubtlessly has great significance to the environmental protection and the improvement of ethics. But that also makes people confused because of the disputes between different schools. This paper analyzed the environmental ethics of present west and affirmed their reasonable parts of idea as well as pointed out their shortcomings. Furthermore, based on integrating the environmental ethics of present west and ancient China, the thesis constructed an open and relatively complete system of environmental ethics that is regarded as the ethical basis of the sustainable development strategy. The theory summed up the man's environmental ethic to three realms from the low level to high: humanism, creature-equality and eco-centralism.From the view of this theory, the paper discussed the problem of if "sustainability" and "development" are compatible and how they can get compatible. Concerning about the realization of sustainable development strategy, the author put forward some fundamental principles and primary regulations of environmental ethics that gave different ethical requirements to different behavior subjects. Because the realization of sustainable development strategy depends on the improvement of science and technology to the minimum, we should promote the "green technology" which is applicable to the sustainable development strategy.