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The report is about the environmental ethics. Basically, environmental ethics is the study of human interaction with nature. It refers to the moral relationship of human and non-human entities. It is a part of environmental philosophy which helps to extend the traditional boundaries of ethics including human to non-human world. Humans are a very essential part as well as other living creature. Every human being should respect these creatures and treat them with follow the important morals and ethics. So, what are the ethics?
So, we can say that the environmental ethics is what actually we follow to protect our environment as well as other non-human creatures (plants and animals) and keep our environmental resources safe. So, we should learn about environmental ethics for the safe-guard of whole living creature.
There are many ethical principles about environment in sense of morality. These are:
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- Anthropocentrism
- Non-anthropocentrism
- Biocentrism
- Moral consider ability
- Aesthetic value
- Welfare of animal
- Rights of animal
- Moderate consumption
As environmental ethics is a part of environmental philosophy, there are many controversial opinions about environment. Environmental philosophy refers our philosophical understanding to nature and to our conception of nature values and entitlements. It includes all the major issues like metaphysical, aesthetic, epistemology and so on.
Industrial activities impact on environment in many ways. Depletion of natural resources, degradation of natural resources, global warming, ozone layer depletion, e-waste.
So, for controlling these threats as a human being, we should follow some ethics such as reduction of waste, reuse of waste, recycling of waste, control material balance, product differentiation, managing regulation, technology use, make an eco-friendly system.
And we can create a perfect habitable environment for future by improving the efficiency; evaluating environmental resource, industrial policy; taking essential training for employee; increasing communication system; creating consciousness among the employees.
To promote environmental awareness among the people we need the help of different stakeholders like the general public, the media, environmental groups, corporations and the governments.
And we can discuss about another environmental issues such as sustainable development, product differentiation, managing regulation, environmental justice, environmental health, environmental audit.
Introduction
“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one is watching
Even when doing the wrong thing is legal”
-Aldo Leopold
If we want a habitable world, it’s our responsibility as a human being to create a perfect environment. So, for creating a perfect habitable environment, we should make and follow some ethics. So, an ethical environment is very important for our better living.
Environmental ethics refers to the moral relationship of human and non-human entities. it’s all about the study of human interaction with nature. Environmental ethics indicate that humans are a part of nature as well as other living creature, which includes plants and animals. These items are a very important part of the world and are considered to be a function of human life. Thus, it is essential that every human being use moral and ethics when dealing with the creatures.
In business perspective, it is concerned with a company’s responsibility to protect the environment in which it operates. Corporations have a special responsibility to bear the ethical environment, since they have played a major role environmental degradation. While producing goods they’ve destroyed forests, polluted water source, polluted atmosphere and poisoned water. Corporations have a moral, ethical and social responsibility to maintain the ecosystem and safeguard the environment.
Distinctive Features Of Environmental Ethics
The distinctive features of environmental ethics show how environmental ethics are related to social or personal ethics. However, you are a very ethical person or not but the fact is that you already think in many ethical purposes. You think about right and wrong, about what it fair, about having justice done. Actually, the features of environmental ethics are categorized by appealing the classic question words- “who,” “when,” “where,” “how,” “what” which refers both the interrelation between personal and environmental ethics and the contrast of environmental ethics itself.
The “Who” Of Environmental Ethics
Environmental ethics refers to the thinking about who in fact are the subjects of ethics. Categorically, it asks us to consider:
- it is not only about the personal but groups and nations also like how members treated by their groups and how nations treat each other.
- It refers how we act toward ourselves and others and the natural recourses.
The “Where” Of Environmental Ethics
It asks us to consider:
- to look far ahead in time
- to look far afield on land water and air
- a far broader field as the scene of every ethical decision
- the interconnectedness of the natural world
- to live comfortably of our habitats
- places far from us
The “How” Of Environmental Ethics
When we think about the decision of environmental ethics, we must think about how some key factors affect the environment. These are difference between the experiential and ethical
- the part of risk
- probability
- uncertainty
- protection
- instrumental value
The experiential thinking about how we live in the natural environment. And the ethical thinking is about how we ought to live.
Ethical Principle About Environment In Sense Of Morality
Environmental ethics belief confidently that other animals, plants and other element of nature are morally significant and human and society have responsibilities maintain a harmonious relation with nature. We should inherent respect for nature. The environmental code of ethics support and respects the nature. The present study develops and refers basic principles for environmental ethics according to moral reasoning about environmental. Environmental ethics is a vastly developing field and changing with many different ways from different disciplines. There is no accurate set of principles which will use to all apply in environmental ethics as there is a lot of disagreement. Some principles are found to follow by society, corporation.
- Anthropocentrism: Here focus that only humans are important being than others and other things only have assistant value to humans.
- Non-anthropocentrism: It say that human is not only the important being in environment, other things have also important value.
- Biocentrism: The idea refers that all things have value.
- Moral consider ability: What human impart beings with important value, in a way that human act morally toward them. If grant moral consider ability to a being, they are agreeing that there are moral laws governing their interactions with that being.
- Aesthetic value: The value which have something in virtue of its beauty or character.
- Welfare of animal: Here describe that attempt to provide just and human treatment for animals.
- Rights of animal: effort to provide animals with moral and legal right on par with those of humans.
- Moderate consumption: product should meet regulatory standards because it can become harmful for environmental in future.
Environmental Philosophy
Environmental philosophy refers our relation to nature as a human being. It reviews our philosophical understandings of nature and our conception of nature value and entitlements. It explores how we are to live with and in nature.
Environmental philosophy includes all the major issues of philosophy:
- Metaphysical ones concerning the relation of humanity to nature. It studies about our assumption about the basic stuff and structure of things.
- Aesthetic ones concerning the character of aesthetic value as found in nature rather than in human art and its place in education.
- Epistemology is concern about how we come to know and understand nature and how different epistemologies expose different aspects of the natural world.
- Ethics is concern about the morality of our treatment of living things and
systems. - issues surrounding the boundary of environmental ethics and environmental economics.
- issues of political decision making.
- representation in decision-making forums both of current people and of future and non-human interest.
Different societies understand and relate to their natural environment in different ways. Environmental philosophy is also important since it is useful in changing attitudes towards the environment.
Industrial Activities Impact On Environment And Environmental Ethics For Resolution
Environmental damage through industrial activity in different ways. It’s become dangerous for our better living. Human and other element of nature affected by industrial pollution. The biggest problem is depletion of natural resource, degradation of the natural resource, global warming and depletion of ozone layer.
- Depletion of natural resource: Natural resource are generally divided between renewable resource and nonrenewable resource. After the industrial revolution, nature started to taking place of meet the need for raw materials for the industries activity. In the developing race excessive use natural resource that used in production of goods. It’s dangerous for environment because nonrenewable resource depleted.
- Degradation of natural resource: Environmental degradation refers of the quality of environment though natural resource such as air, water and soil. Some industrial activity damage natural resource such as waste aerial, aqueous or solid polluted the air, soil and water, destruction the ecosystem, habitat destruction, destruction wildlife.
- Global warming: Climate change known as a global warming. It caused by pollution and increasing heat around the world. There have many reasons for this pollution, it comes from burn fossil fuels such as oil, coal, natural gas and gasoline. Global warming the most serious problem for industrial pollution.
- Ozone layer depletion: Ozone layer depletion means reduction of the amount of ozone in the atmosphere. Ozone layer harmful for our environment because it increases the amount of ultraviolet radiation which is dangerous for world surface, it increases the rate of skin cancer, eye cataracts, and immune and genetic system damage.
- E-waste: ‘any appliance using an electric power supply that has reached its end of life.’ _ defined by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The rapid growth of electronic waste increasing day by day. E-waste source can be different and numerous such as household electronic equipment, IT and telecommunication, entertainment and lighting equipment, e-tools, electronic toys and medical instrument. It’s become problem for environment because it keeps increasing day by day, toxic material damage natural resource, people health affected by it, managing data security and polluted air, water and solid. E-waste increase for development, technology, human mentality and over population.
Ethics for industrial pollution control:
- Reduction of waste
- Reuse of waste
- Recycling of waste
- Material balance
- Product differentiation
- Managing regulation
- Technology use
- Eco-friendly system
Future Outlook On Environment
Environmentalism in the 21st century can be described by some principle that will encourage as base for continued activism and policy arrangement. Proper environmental is better for being live and Business Corporation. We will take challenging goal and use our ability to make a good environmental in future. We should follow some policy for it.
- Efficiency: Using renewable and nonrenewable resource responsively and look for efficiencies that reduce waste and reuse resource. Developing environmental process that leaves a clean healthy environment.
- Evaluation: Evaluate environment resource, industrial policy which made for concern in environment and use the improving result to make better environment.
- Partnership: Partnership strategy use cooperative firm resolution environmental issue. Corporation taking the ‘common sense’ method and using the approach for benefit from knowledge and experience.
- Training: Essential training for employees so that they know about environmental responsibilities.
- Communication: Encourage open dialogue and decision making about creating law and regulation of environment through communication management of environment, corporation, government and public.
- Responsibility: All corporations, industry is responsible for understanding and maintain environmental ethics in their daily work
- International cooperation: Development of fundamental to future environment which is growing in response to the crisis of global environment by Nations programmers, world conference and international agreements.
References
- https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/ethics-environmental/
- http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/environmental-e/
- http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/modules/environmental_ethics/index.html
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- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237389/
- http://prosblogion.ektopos.com/archives/tag/environmental-ethics
