Environmental Education and the Ethics of Responsibility

Abstract

Nature undergoes countless transformations through human action. With the advent of technoscience, the capacity for intervention has changed alarmingly, causing destruction and degradation to the ethos. The technological society puts the lives of all living beings at risk, we live in an environmental crisis. Environmental Education is an important means of transforming human actions. What makes us use the Responsibility Principle, proposed by Hans Jonas, as a new action for technological civilization. Based on the Jonasian theory, we analyzed its possible contribution in the scope of environmental ethics to the development of the National Environmental Education Policy (LEI nº 9.795 / 1.999), as a possibility of public policy aimed at collective action, valuing the co-participation actions for socioenvironmental good.