环境伦理与生态文明

当今的时代是从工业文明向生态文明转变的过渡时期.20世纪中叶,工业化先进国家首先暴发全球性生态危机,掀起环境保护革命风暴,提出生态文化的重要观念;但是,由于工业文明的道路惯性,没有率先走向建设生态文明的道路.这时,中国工业化迅速发展,虽然取得伟大成就,但是付出了沉痛的代价.应对环境和资源问题的前所未有的严重挑战,中国走向建设生态文明的道路.环境伦理作为生态文明的重要观念,是建设生态文明的一个理论支点,现在它只是一种初步的形态.中国环境伦理学将在促进生态文明核心价值观的形成,在为建设生态文明的服务中,不断发展、完善和走向成熟.

Environmental Ethics and Ecological Civilization

The contemporary era is the transition period from industrial civilization to ecological civilization. In the middle of the 20th century, the global eco-crisis initially broke up in the developed industrial countries, hence the environmental protection movement started and some important ecological culture notions were put forward. Owing to the inertia of industrial civilization, industrial countries didn＇t take the lead in constructing ecological civilization. Meanwhile, athough China made great achievememnt by its rapid development of industralization, it paid extremly high cost. In order to deal with the unprecedented serious challenge of environmental pollution and resources depletion, China started to step onto the road of ecological civilization. Though still in the initial form, as an important conception of ecological civilization, environmental ethics plays the role of theoretical support for the construction of ecological civilization, China＇s environmental ethics will develop into mature during the process to serve for the ecological civilization construction, particularly in the effort to promote the formation of the core value of ecological civilization.