Abstract
Humanity is now facing the potential risk of profound and irreversible human-induced environmental degradation which could adversely affect man’s long-term existence. This should alert us to take immediate action to arrest the high degree of human-driven pressures. This paper introduces an authoritative argument for the ethical imperative of humanity in environmental protection and the role of environmental and moral education in determining the ways in which this could be achieved. To lay the foundation for this argument, the paper first provides an analysis of the anthropogenically induced global warming and climate change and its impact on human survival. This should provoke critical environmental thinking and actions. It further examines the moral philosophy of environmental protection to introduce practical prescriptions via a set of ethical principles to guide human orientation towards environmental protection and conservation. The proposed beginning of the way forward in containing the current anthropogenic environmental destruction is thus to embrace a philosophical basis for human engagement with our natural world.
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