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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 135, 2019
Innovative Technologies in Environmental Science and Education (ITESE-2019)
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Article Number | 03074 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Green Architecture and Sustainable Urban Design | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201913503074 | |
Published online | 04 December 2019 |
Environmental issues resulting from scientific and technical progress
National Aviation University, Kosmonavta Komarova ave., 1, Kyiv, Ukraine
* Corresponding author: sidorkina.a@gmail.com
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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