This chapter summarizes the United Nations’ journey to global environmental sustainability since Stockholm It concludes that human beings are arguably the most powerful force of environmental modification and ecological impoverishment, and only we can solve the problems our planet is facing The way forward is for us to dismantle our unrestrained capitalist mode of resource exploitation and to build a common future in harmony with the environment via a moral and ethical (bioecocentric) engagement with nature It may well be that thinking morally or ethically about the natural environment can influence human beings’ attitudes and aid environmental conservation It further concludes that biodiversity conservation and environmental ethics go hand in glove, and it is only by extending environmental ethics or bioecocentrsim, for that matter, to nature that can we avoid crossing the planetary tipping point that could lead to abrupt or irreversible ecological destruction It also demonstrates how the coronavirus pandemic could teach us about our response to global environmental crisis
Chapter 7 - Summary and conclusion