Abstract
The human environment is experiencing consistent flux. Media houses around the world continue to provide, progressively worsening reports of the negative effects of global warming due to seemingly unforeseen changes in weather patterns with adverse effects on both humans and natural habitats. The search for positive solution calls for collective responsibility and practical initiative beyond rhetorics and unthoughtful nationalism. Given the burden for an enduring, acceptable and practical solution, this study applies a historical analytical approach to the study of environmental crisis, solution efforts, challenges and prospects. The study proposes that an adequate understanding of the tenets of Virtue Ethics if practically aligned with environmental climate awareness through Creation Care could produce the much-needed motivation for protection and preservation of nature and natural habitat. Furthermore, the paper addresses global environmental issues with greater emphasis on carbon emission, to answer the question of where the globe is today concerning the environmental crisis. It also evaluates the causes and effects of environmental crisis, to answer the questions for reasons why the globe is where it is environmentally. Furthermore, this study pries into the needed solutions to the environmental crisis, to answer the question of what has been done and what is globally happening in the search for the solution to the crisis. In addition, the paper looks into the nature of various solutions proffered, to answer the question on the level of compliance and obstacles to global environmental initiatives. Lastly, the paper looks at implications of study for further Global Environmental Accords. The findings through this study showed that it takes humans with virtue, conscience, courage, fairness and exhibit in sincere terms quest for shared community experience, irrespective race, wealth and ethnicity. Humans whose actions are correct in both intellect and will can in actuality find lasting solution to environmental global crisis and not necessarily accords.