Humanity faces major technological and technical challenges that give a man a sense of control over life; life outside us (mastery of nature and natural phenomena, colonization of the universe, space mining, etc.) and one’s own life (transformation of the body, search for the elixir of eternal life and youth, etc.). Although from the very beginning humanity has dealt with similar questions (how to understand and master life), today only these, and above all the answers to them, are becoming frightening and worrying. The development of technique and technology intervenes in the field of man and the human environment and opens many ethical issues, which development societies and corporations are mainly not dealing with but require thorough ethical consideration. Humanity has become the master of nature, but nature and our environment are increasingly vulnerable and endangered. Today, we are talking about an environmental crisis (Harari 2019, 13) that threatens not only nature; it endangers man himself. With his consumer way of life, man contributes significantly to unfavourable climate change. In the history of the Earth, climate change has been happening all the time. Still, this natural flow of cycles has been decisively accelerated in the last 200 years (since the Industrial Revolution). We live in a paradoxical situation where man has become a victim and a slave to his progress. The question arises as to whether we prepare for climate change and what we are willing to do to survive and preserve planet Earth for future generations. In the present article, we talk about the relationship between man and nature and highlight the issue of this relationship. Looking at the pre-initial situation, when nature entrusted to man in protection and domination, and moving away from it, helps to understand the current unenviable state in which humanity and the planet Earth found themselves. The purpose of this paper is to show that in modern, postmodern times, we need new ethical rules that will concern human (interpersonal) relationships and the relationship to the whole of creation. The paper’s central thesis is setting a new ethical perspective, as proposed by Hans Jonas, where the ethics of responsibility for the other as the source of the moral sense complemented by a commitment to nature, which again needs to acknowledge its essence and dignity. In a changed attitude towards reality and active solidarity responsibility of each individual and the whole of humanity, it is possible to look for hope for the survival of man, nature and future generations.
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