The New Aspects of Environmental Protection and Environmental Security

Abstract

Environmental protection is an extensive problem influencing our everyday life, the solution to which requires a multidisciplinary way of thinking. In this co-operation, many scientific branches may be involved, thus, for instance psychology that integrates the human sciences at a high level. Human intervention in the climatic system has caused fatal consequences, of the impacts of which we have had bitter experience. Mankind is not able to respond to Global Warming by a sufficiently quick adaptation, thus, the only possibility left for mankind will be to slow down the changing climatic processes. To achieve this, a permanent change in our attitude will become increasingly urgent. In order that people can increase the efficiency of environmental protection, they will have to become more open. Therefore, I would recommend to the attention of environmental protection security experts a branch of environmental psychology, i. e. ecopsychology, as an alternative possibility for prevention.