1-2 SHORT STORY INVESTIGATE ETHICAL DILEMMAS

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1-2 SHORT STORY 1 1-2 Short Story: Investigate Ethical Dilemmas Jontaue Johnson Southern New Hampshire University PHL-212 Introduction to Ethics

1-2 SHORT STORY 2 Because environmental ethics are a part of my profession with Waste Management, I decided to remain with the case study that was suggested in the challenge. There is a need to discuss or otherwise deal with this subject. Because it offers a moral framework for how we engage with the natural environment as humans, environmental ethics are significant to me. It enables us to reflect on the environmental impact of our choices and directs us toward acting more morally and sustainably. Because the questions in the rubric are so closely related to the subject, I chose to use them. These environmental ethics-related queries will shed light on the current dilemmas. What responsibilities, if any, do people have to the environment and other animals? What are the ethical ramifications of a changing environment, given the presumption that the natural world is undergoing demonstrable change that results in more heat? Do certain cultures experience environmental effects that others do not? Environmental ethics and environmental economics share at least two characteristics: an emphasis on environmental issues and a predisposition to bring up problems and offer solutions that go against the grain of the underlying field. Since exploring and defining the ethical relationship between humanity and nature seems to have been seen as their fundamental goal, environmental ethicists have pushed the bounds of ethics. Their work has caused ethical theorists to reflect more fully on environmental issues, particularly those relating to wilderness, species, and natural processes, as well as the moral standing of life, particularly nonhuman life. Environmental ethics holds that there should be an ethical bond between humans and the environment (Collicot, 2018). According to environmental ethics, one should base their actions on a set of moral principles that direct our treatment of other living things in nature. If repeated ethical themes about the roles of markets and government in

1-2 SHORT STORY 3 public life count, then important environmental ethics contributions to the discussion of, say, pollution control policy are less obvious. Additionally, I believe that new insights about the value of extending human life owe more to medical ethics than to environmental ethics. It is morally acceptable to treat nonhuman creatures or significantly as humans because they are endowed with intrinsic worth. There is a great deal of debate about this procedure. In terms of an ethics of responsibilities, the responsibility to protect animal life could be seen as a version of the duty to beneficence, a duty to assist people in need, provided that doing so does not come at an unduly great cost to us. We defend animals for the same justifications we defend those who are in need (Libre Text, 2017). The first responsibility developed from human responsibility to animals is one to protect their wild and natural surroundings because animals need on their habitat to express their existence and because their instincts and requirements suggest that they may only be free within their natural context. Many ethical frameworks and our innate ethical sensitivity center on our duties to those who are nearby and may be directly impacted by our decisions. Such ethical systems face a dilemma because of the technological ability that individuals now must negatively impact others they will never meet. A global climate change, for instance, will harm the world's poorest people, drastically lower the quality of life for future generations, and endanger plants and animals all over the planet (Brown, 2023). Despite this, global environmental challenges present significant ethical questions. Models demonstrate that the impacts of climate change are not evenly dispersed over the globe. Location will certainly have a significant impact on actual temperature differences, with projected increases being much smaller in the tropics than in areas close to the poles. The chemical makeup of the atmosphere has been changed by human activity, which has caused climate change on earth. Globally, the atmospheric concentration of methane has

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