ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IN ORDER TO A SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM

This paper results of an analysis concerning the conflict of the existing ethical paradigms in the context of the crisis of relations between society and the environment, which at present shows the ecological crisis' panorama. First analyzing, from a logical-deductive perspective, the relations between man and nature under a general framework of the crisis regarding current environmental policies and the challenges to be faced by the nations all over the world, specifically the problem that concerns economic development and the environment. Therefore, we will observe the matters under an ethical-philosophical angle supported on the reflection about the conduct and moral values of modern society in order to overcome the ecological crisis under the paradigm proposed by M. L. Pelizzoli.