Towards a rethought ecological humanism. A philosophical look

The ecological problem in its deepest implications concerns the destruction of our living spaces by a techno-scientific civilization that believes that its action on nature is limitless. At the same time we realize that this destruction of nature is at the same time that of the human being, not only in the physical sense of his possible disappearance from the earth, but also in the sense of the negation of his rights to life and his rights to the future. The death of nature inevitably leads to the death of man, and to avoid this, man must develop amphetous strategies that allow him to change nature without destroying it. He needs a vital balance with the biosphere on which he depends for his survival. This requires a new ethical consciousness, a new humanism grounded in environmental education. This way of thinking and acting will make it possible to reorganize the relationship between man and nature through an ethic of prevention and responsibility, the only one capable of restoring meaning and life to the biosphere and to life as a whole, and opening up a better future.