Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Problems

Md. Abu Sayem

ABSTRACT

Human knowledge is so powerful because of which humans are very distinct from other animals. This knowledge is generated in many ways, but philosophy is attached to every step. From the ancient world to this postmodern world philosophical perception of nature has been working as a root cause of our present environmental degradation. The present paper tries to expose what this philosophical perception of nature is and how this works for environmental problems. It also examines other potential causes of environmental destruction discovered by scholars and investigates their arguments. With a critical analysis of the causes of environmental degradation, the paper aims to draw the attention of the present philosophers for thinking about a new worldview of the environment.