Why Does the Current World Environment Need Environmental Bioethics?

Bioethics is a recent area of knowledge know as ethics for life. The Neologism was consolidated by Van Rensselaer Poter in the 1970's.1 Poter was an American biochemist and oncologist in line with the visionary environmental movements that were strengthened in the face of the awareness of the consequences of the sudden and intense technoscientific development. Potter's work, “Bioethics: bridge to the future”, it was based on an analogy of the one human being with a cancer cell with the potential to compromise the physical integrity of the planet if mitigating and preventive attitudes were not prioritized. Bioethics was conceived as a bridge to connect the biomedical sciences and the sciences of humanity, promulgating that only through dialogue considering the ethical values and common interests, it would be possible to reach a fair solution for all the actors that make up one conflict.