This lesson provides a decision-making guide to help you integrate what you've learned in previous lessons. The main benefit of this guide is that it will force you to think more clearly about the different considerations that must be considered when making an ethical decision about an environmental problem. Analysis, Assessment, and Action are the three general phases in the decision-making model. Even if you can't answer all of these questions, grouping your thoughts into these three main categories will help you avoid the fatal mistake of conflating empirical and normative, or spiritual, considerations.
This model is meant to aid a decision involving a case in environmental ethics. Other environmental ethics cases can be found by searching on the Web. It also highly encouraged  to use these decision-making model on a real-life case that you may be confronting in your communities. Go through each step of the model, take notes as you go.

ACTION (MAKE THE DECISION AND ACT ON IT)
1. Decision: Which alternative is morally preferable?
2. Justification: how do you justify it in terms of the moral principles and the moral reasoning above?
3. Communication: How will you communicate this information to diverse audiences so it is morally reasonable?
4. Reflection: Looking back on the case, are there any aspects of it that were especially enlightening or troubling? What new developments might cause you to reconsider your decision?