Спецификой моральных проблем на фоне загрязнения природной среды является то, что человек в экологических соотношениях не имеет непосредственного контакта с другим человеком. Последствия действия по отношению к другим людям выступают обычно с опозданием и чаще всего приходят не замечены виновником.
Until recently, ecology as a dimension of thinking and a category of valuation has been absent in macroeconomic decisions, in activity of industrial plants and in people's behaviour. Now that environmental degradation is assuming catastrophic proportions, ecological thinking is beginning to appear slowly in social activity, science, education, politics and economics. The environmental situation in Poland could be changed through an integrated program of social action, developed by society itself, aimed at encouraging ecological thinking in policies, economy, culture, religion and science. The author defines the conditions necessary for development of such thinking and emphasizes that none of these conditions have been fulfilled yet.