Marx And Engels, The Modern Sense Of The Eco-ethical Thinking

The history of humankind depends on the environment of the whole world, and human's activity reversely has been affecting the ecosystem since the human society appears. But the influence was in the withstanding scope of environment and mankind could keep well with ecosystem environment until the industrial society developed. After entering the industry society of high speed development, the whole environment encountered the unprecedented mortal blow: the degeneration of the ecosystem, the pollution of environment, the prostration of resources and so on. These problems arose human to reconsider their own behavior.Then the tide of ecosystem ethics emerged in 1960s. The trend of thought swept from the east to the west, from the ecology of shallow layer to the deep-seated, from the anthropocentrism to non-human center principle, from the pure environmental protection organization —the "Green Party" to the " green" turning into " red", and lastly the " red" and " green" developed with each other. Many changes and situation come forth in the course.In this process of theory exploration, Marx and Engle's conception about ecosystem and human society development faces with two kinds of clearly contrary treatments.