In the Anthropocene, environmental crises demand a rethinking of creativity’s role in higher education. While creativity is celebrated for driving innovation, its societal and ecological impacts are often overlooked. Traditional ethical frameworks—virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics—fail to address these complexities. We propose critical creativity ethics, an approach that views creativity as a practice embedded in societal contexts, capable of either perpetuating problems or driving transformative change. This framework empowers students to critically evaluate their creative actions, distinguishing between those that accelerate crises (e.g., overconsumption) and those that counteract them (e.g., sustainable innovation). Through interdisciplinary projects, case studies, and reflective exercises, students learn to define, analyze, and creatively solve environmental problems. Ultimately, critical creativity ethics calls for a fundamental rethinking of creativity, positioning it as a moral imperative for addressing the environmental crisis. By equipping students with ethical tools, higher education can inspire a generation to use creativity not for personal or economic gain but to build a sustainable and just world.