JUXTAPOSING ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIO-ETHICS: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

The aim of our study was to present the connection between environment and bioethics and how this connection could be implemented in a way that would promote a cleaner planet and healthier people. Bioethics can be defined as the systematic study of the moral dimensions, including moral vision, decisions, conduct, and policies of the life sciences and health care, employing several methodologies in an interdisciplinary setting. In brief, bioethics is about right-doing or doing what ought to be done. Bioethics can be conceptualized in philosophical terms and/or in theological terms. Sometimes, bioethics exclusively focuses on the applied ethics to medicine, or the value-based medicine. In so doing, the big questions emerge in the foreground that deals with the value of life and the resulting social arrangements necessary to sustain priorities. Allocating funds in healthcare is a typical example where bioethics thrives. Bioethics, the ethical side of things concerning the rapid advances of biotechnology and technological progress, is a notion that becomes more and more influential in scientific research nowadays. It is widely believed that bioethics should apply in all aspects of life but do people know what exactly is bioethics? Do they understand its importance in our existence? How can people understand that their everyday life is substantially influenced by a respectful to the environment green city program, a healthy diet with biologically tested food, sustainable development which is not limited in economic criteria but in ecological/ environmental ones and applications or by climate change? It is vital for our development and evolution as species to comprehend in depth the link among these ideas in order to have a life defined by quality, health, ethics and respect to our environment. On the contrary, Environmental ethics is concerned with the moral relations that hold between humans and the natural world. The ethical principles governing those relations determine our duties, obligations, and responsibilities with regard to the Earth's natural ecosystems. Environmental ethics define the man's moral obligation to environment. But are we offering progress to our world in the long run by using any substances without thinking about the environment? Are there any environmental obligations that humans should keep for future generations? Is it right to cause the extinction of a species only because it is convenient? In the same way should humans continue to destroy forests for the sake of human consumption? Or should humans continue to make gasoline powered cars? All the above seem irrelevant as theories and ideas but under the shield of the environmental conservation and sustainability become one and the same problem seeking solution: the impact of technological advances on our environment has been detrimental to all creatures' health and well-being and there is a need for new ways to preserve the environment and continue exist through ecological modernization, growth-delinking, dematerialization. A research we conducted recently by giving a questionnaire to 100 environment scientists to fill in, related to how connected the environment and bioethics is, had as a result that almost 70% of them claimed that there is no belief of a connection between environment and ethics as well as the role of bioethics on the environmental protection. This assignment is going to show the degree of connection among the above notions and their importance to humanity and the planet.