Environmental issues resulting from scientific and technical progress

Autor: Sidorkina Olena, Skyba Oksana, Sukhova Nadiya, Poda Tetiana
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 135, p 03074 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2267-1242
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/201913503074
Popis: The article explores the environmental issues of mankind being a negative consequence of unrestrained scientific and technological progress. Environmental issues have become global because they have reached a level that threatens the possibility of life on Earth. More and more scientists are becoming aware of the need to find new moral and ethical regulations that can change the consumer attitude to nature, help them to realize their responsibility towards it. It suggests the idea of the emergence and formation of a new ethics – the ethics of responsibility. That is, modern moral and ethical principles should not only allow humanity to enjoy all the benefits of scientific and technological civilization, but also to warn against the foreseeable possible threats.
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