Adam Plachciak
Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland), Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism in Jelenia Gora, ul. Nowowiejska 3, Poland
The purpose of the paper is to present the need of ethical concern in the context of climate change as one of the main environmental problems. The attention was focused on moral responsibility for the nature from anthropocentric perspective.
Key words
climate change, ethics, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism.
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