Environmental ethics are a critical component of environmental sustainability and they give direction and guidance on how the environment should be governed.
These are environmental best practices which should not only be vibrant on paper as policy, yet they become the missing link in practice.
Quite a number of unfortunate incidents, some leading to loss of human lives in this country, could have been avoided if environmental education and safety were taken to the people for awareness and application.
Many of the people who participate in unethical environmental practices lack information, hence they
need to be continuously engaged in order for them to avoid tragic ethical dilemmas.
Environmental ethics is the scientific observation of a wide range of issues related to the rights of individuals on the environment. In short, it is the moral relationship of human beings with the environment.
Environmental ethics deal with ecological rights of creatures today and
those that will come in future. Therefore, it is fundamental to nurture and observe ethical standards as a long-term process of conserving and maintaining nature and its resources.
From wilful participation in land degradations, carbon emissions, forest destructions and other unethical environmental behaviours, it leaves the environmental governance of a country at the mercy of the ecofreaky, trigger-happy, careless and unrepentant behaviours. Ignorance is not the answer and it is no defence.
