An Ethical Approach To The Theory Of Internalization Of Environmental Cost

Internalization of environmental cost reflects goods'social cost of all by internalizing the environmental cost to the production cost. It can eliminate human activities'negative externalities environment by forcing environmental subject to undertake the environmental cost which is generated in their practice activities. It's helpful for making people implement their environment responsibility, it's helpful for realizing intergeneration equity and intrageneration equity, it's helpful for optimizing the harmony between man and nature. In a word, it's"ought to be"of ethics. But,it is difficult to put it into practice in China, because there're some questions in the theory of internalization of environmental cost, its concrete measures are powerless, and people's environmental ethics awareness of it is weak. In this case, we should improve the theory of internalization of environmental cost, which meets ethical goal. We should take measures of internalization of environmental cost which meet ethical goal. We should make a distinction between economic ration and moral ration. Besides, we should improve our moral consciousness. From these ways, the goal of internalization of environmental cost will come ture as soon as possible.