Conceptual Model for Ethical Roots of Environmental Crisis

In recent decades, the crisis of environmental degradation has become widespread and has caused concerns. Since this crisis is the consequence of an intellectual and moral crisis, it must be considered independently of the technical and engineering aspects. While analyzing different human-nature interactions and the views of current thinkers on nature, in this research, an attempt has been made to analyze the ethical roots of the environmental crisis by presenting a conceptual model. Environmental crises are exacerbated by attitudes that, while emphasizing humanism, see nature as an inanimate and unconscious object that has no benefit other than mere matter. The conceptual model enlightens that in the face of the negative impact that the weakness of the creation worldview, self-centeredness, and other species aversion have on the universe, the "cosmopolitan ecocentrism" attitude has been developed due to the positive effect of the universe on the environmental crises. As a result, environmental ethics is solely comprehensive ethics; That is, while considering other cultures, species, and habitats, it is cosmopolitan. In other words, environmental ethics is universal, so it must be a fundamental approach to ethics. Since ethics is a way of life, ecological ethics is the universal way of life, the most ethics. Therefore, if we want to know why we have inherited this great amount of environmental degradation, we must be aware of the details of anthropocentric ethics and compare it with environmental ethics. Environmental ethics, or more accurately, ecological ethics, is the most cosmopolitan way of life and universal ethics.