The Ethics Of Human Systems

Ever since the dawn of industrialization, humans have caused serious, irreversible damage to the biosphere. And as the world progresses and Canadians looks on, they realized the impact of their environmental damage. Sometimes new ecofriendly technology enters the market and replaces the old environment damaging one. But that is not enough, human society as a whole must completely rethink and change themselves individually to so that their actions causes minimal environmental backlash.

To start with, I must affirm you that throughout the course all the topics were essential to me and has helped me improve my skill on human ethics. However, as it is suggested let me focus on the four concepts that were very essential to me. First, ethics and values are very necessary in the human life both personally and professionally. When serving my clients at work and contributing to communal change, these were the first keys component for me to use in my daily activity, and also with my house of values I succeeded to encourage the distinctive characteristics of human facilitiesin my community because in doing this community service support the integrity and ethics of the incentive workers, help clients and our community well-being as well as increase our incentive payment. In my everyday activity, ethics and values refer to the conduct of a professional and to the moral standards I embrace. Therefore, some of the ethical

In his writing, A Practical Companion to Ethics, Anthony Weston explains people are more judgmental and it causes a lot more problems than solutions. Anthony Weston feels Ethics requires us to be mindful thinkers, because it helps fight unjust prejudgment. I personally feel this could help fix court systems, federal, and state wide corruption. Most importantly being a mindful thinker could help businesses. There are so many reasons that could fall under Anthony’s theory. Getting to know the author and his work. I feel his mindful thinking is to reach out to others and interact with more people in an expressive way. Weston believes this will help our community progress in a positive manner towards others. I think he feels ethics requires us

“Many current discussions about sustainability focus on the ways in which human activity...can be maintained in the future without exhausting all of our current resources… there has been a close correlation between the growth of human society and environmental degradation - as communities grow, the environment often declines” (603).

The message of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s Governing Board is that human impacts on this resilient natural world are so unprecedented and extensive that we crossed the line into unsustainable consumption some time ago and are now depleting ecosystem capital stock instead of living off its sustainable goods and services.

First, the current development of our natural resources is unsustainable because we are using much more than the amount that nature can reproduce for future generations. For example, we are cutting down trees faster than they could grow back and we use fossil fuels that by some estimates take "millions of years to form." This is clearly not sustainable because we are using resources quicker than the amount that nature produces every

The Ethical Matrix is an adaptable apparatus for breaking down moral issues. It serves as a purpose of aiding individuals in making ethical decisions regarding an array of educational issues. It is a guide to discerning thought and equitable consideration, not a substitute for them. The aim of the ethical matrix as indicated by Tangen (2014) is to fundamentally serve as an instrument for “mapping the terrain of ethical issues in various types of educational research with human subjects or in evaluation research, contract research, researcher–practitioner cooperation, or in other types of research representing some common ethical challenges and

Year after year, natural resources are drastically being consumed. Some of the radical results of having a consumer-based economy in the United States are having less than 4% of original forests, 40% drinkable waterways, as well as consuming 30% of the world’s resources while the United States only has 5% of the world’s population. For further success in our country as well as in the world, we shouldn’t have a consumer-based economy with finite resources to consume due to the fact that resources are being wasted, pollution is continuously growing in the air that we breathe, and toxins affect our well-being as humans.

In the world we live in the environment and those who live in it are all influenced by one another. These influences can often be positive like when a bird helps to pollinate a flower or negative like when humans dump toxins and other chemicals into oceans or rivers, which then kill the animals living in it and also the animals that consume those sea animals. Nowadays humans have more of a negative affect on the environment rather than a positive one, however some people are trying to turn things around before things get too bad. In Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, “Pump Six” by Paolo Bacigalupi, and the short film Mr. Green we see how the relationship between humans and the environment has impacted one another. Ecotopia is set in a futuristic period where Washington, Oregon, and Northern California have seceded from the rest of the United States and have formed their own country called Ecotopia.

“A Letter from the Future” by Richard Heinberg describes to readers of a not too distant future (2101) an Earth in which its resources have been squandered and is facing an irreversible environmental meltdown caused by human’s greediness and mismanagement. Heinberg writes from the future to try and educate past civilization on what is happening in the future and how if their actions don’t change in how they treat their natural resources their future will irrefutably be destroyed for all mankind. Heinberg wrote this letter in order to explain just how dangerously high our current use of resources are and how it will impact the future.

All around the world, people are consuming more resources, than what can be replenished in the same amount of time. The United States has one of the largest ecological footprints around the world; we are depleting resources very

The earth is sick. Its seven billion inhabitants must nurture it with water, rest, cool air so the fever will lower…the usual. Instead of this, the people living on the earth are over using its resources gradually destroying it, rather than helping out with the small flu which started the whole problem. On average humans in the United States use 4.1 earths worth of materials producing roughly 4.4 pounds of waste each day individually. Throughout history, researchers have found the beginnings of mass consumption and overuse of water specifically documented within the time periods of the Anasazi, Angkor Wat, and the Industrial Revolution leading up to today’s crisis.

In ethics, four systems serve as different beliefs concerning our morals: Relativism Ethics, Consequentialism Ethics, Deontological Ethics, and Virtue Ethics. These four theories attempt to define what right and wrong should be and how one should handle any situation. There are many strengths and weaknesses of each view. The goal is to determine which theory is the best by exploring real world situations and questioning the claims that just don’t work out.

Despite only being around for around two hundred thousand years, humanity has accomplished many great tasks. Humans have been able to conquer most of the land on Earth. They have been able to find ways to travel across huge landscapes in a matter of hours. They have developed ways to grow and harvest their own food through agriculture. Humans even were able to send people into space. Despite these accomplishments, they have all come at a great cost. Humans had to deforest many areas in order to be able to live in those places. Almost all of the modern transportation relies on the nonrenewable resource that is fossil fuels. As the population has grown, bigger farms were made that consume loads of water. Due to these costs, the greatest threat to human sustainability is our reliance on nonrenewable energy and resources. In order to shift from this path, humanity must continue to move away from nonrenewable energy and develop renewable energy, and convince businesses that this path is profitable.

Our conclusions on any occasion are direct consequences of any developed concept in our minds. We see the world as we want to see it through our personal perceptions. When we are categorizing anything as desirable or otherwise, we judge using the concepts that we hold to us. Although different concepts may shape different conclusions, they are all influenced by beliefs and experiences. So, to what extent do our beliefs modify the conclusions that we may reach? The knowledge obtained through out someone’s life through their experiences, or belief system direct decision making almost completely. In my essay I will explore how Ethics and Human sciences correlate with this topic. I will also implement and tie in the connections of Reason and link these concepts with belief and experiences.