Ideas in this flowchart

• Environmental ethics is a distinct field concerned with the moral relationship between humans, other life forms, and the environment.
• Environmental ethics is a subfield of applied ethics.
• It includes other-than-human life forms and the environment in moral discussions.
• Its historical development connects earlier philosophical discussions with the emergence of a distinct discipline.
• Nature was present in philosophical discussions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• Environmental ethics emerged as a distinct discipline during the 1960s and 1970s.
• Rapidly changing conditions and environmental challenges caused by human activities prompted renewed reflection.
• These challenges called for rethinking the relationship between humans and nature.