Concluding Remarks

Together with mapping out highlights from previous discussion, this final chapter will summarize some of the tensions within and across environmental ethics, while assessing evidence from mass audience reception studies that illustrate the clear turn to green-based environmental ethics within the academy. All the while signalling various tipping points for radical transformation and examining a cross section of environmental imagery across media and film. Always remembering that such findings and observations remain tentative and contingent on future critical engagement, coupled with extensive empirical analysis. Nature remains constructed as a complex web across a broad-based series of ecosystems and feeds off the close relationship between humans and nature that clearly promotes a robust environmental ethical starting point for discussion. As affirmed by many scholars, being ethical sometimes means having to place the interests of others above our own and that means that certain of our interests will not be satisfied. In any case, the struggle to encourage audiences to see beyond their selfish interests remains paradoxically what heroic worshipping and spectacular-driven mainstream Hollywood cinema have traditionally been good at promoting.