In ‘This City of Man’, from DNA/SNP, Due to Pollution/ Contamination/ Infection/ Mutation, Overcoming Global Warming, Battling Religious behaviors, Ethical Issues of Genetic Modification and then Ending Up towards Spiritual Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Tang
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Genetic Modification ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Religious Behaviors

13. International ethics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shapcott
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Just War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
Moral Duties

This chapter examines how we should think about ethics, starting with three framing questions: Do states and their citizens have significant moral duties to the members of other countries? Should states and their militaries be morally constrained in the conduct of war? Who is morally responsible for the alleviation of global poverty? The chapter proceeds by defining ethics and considering three significant and difficult ethical issues entailed by globalization: cosmopolitanism, statism, and realist ethics. It concludes by examining the ethical dimensions of global poverty and just war. Two case studies are presented, one dealing with the ethics of global warming and the other with the use of drones to carry out targeted assassinations. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether states should be morally free to reject as many immigrants, including refugees, as they choose.

The Future of Conservation in Polynesia

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Ehrlich ◽  
H. F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Tropical Storms ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments

Polynesia is a part of the world where tourism, especially focused on rich coral reefs, is an important part of the economy. But from the viewpoint of both tourism and conservation biology, it is one of the most threatened areas of the world. Here the ethical issues are somewhat different. How long can this dependence continue and at what cost? What is the ethical planning course for the Region?s national governments, not just in Polynesia, but throughout the Pacific? Like the general activities on the islands, tourism is heavily dependent on petroleum, both for bringing tourists and supplies and for maintaining them. Thus, the very industry that contributes so importantly to Polynesia?s economic viability also contributes significantly to human-induced global warming. As a region, Polynesia is particularly threatened by the accelerating impacts of global warming. Virtually all the islands are threatened by sea level rise, the atolls by inundation, and the high islands by flooding of infrastructure that is concentrated in low coastal areas. There are also the risks of increased and more intense tropical storms, as well as the risks to ocean ecosystems from rising temperatures and the increased acidification of ocean waters.

Environmental Sustainability of Microalgae Production as a Biofuel Source

2011 ◽  
Vol 378-379 ◽  
pp. 433-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lian Dong Zhu ◽  
Marja Naaranoja ◽  
Erkki Hiltunen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Genetic Modification ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Biofuel Feedstock ◽  
Microalgae Biomass ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Photosynthesis Efficiency ◽  
Energy Shortage

The issues of energy shortage, global warming and climate change have led to an increased interest in new energy sector, such as microalgae-based biofuels. There are many advantages to produce microalgae as a biofuel feedstock, for instance, high photosynthesis efficiency and uncompetition with traditional agriculture on farmlands. Benefiting from current culturing technologies, such as open ponds and photobioreactors, commercial microalgae farming (e.g., Earthrise) is booming. In this regard, identifying the main environmental benefits associated with microalgae production is pretty important to support this promising industry. Although there are many researches on microalgae production, published information available on the sustainably environmental benefits is fragmented. The aims of this paper are to investigate and analyze environmental benefits related with microalgae biomass production for biofuel usage from sustainability perspective, systematically and explicitly, including water resource, land, nutrient, greenhouse gases and genetic modification dimensions.

Are All Rational Moralities Equivalent?

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARRYL GUNSON
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Modification ◽  
Normal State ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Genetically Modify ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Ways Of Being

Matti Häyry’s new book Rationality and the Genetic Challenge discusses the ethics of human genetic modification and the bioethical rationalities that inform the different ethical conclusions authors have advanced. It is aimed at correcting the belief that “only one rationality exists or one morality exists; that those that disagree [with them] are unreasonable or evil.” Häyry argues that there are multiple rationalities, and that even though ethical issues may have solutions within individual rationalities, disagreements that have their root in separate rational approaches cannot be universally solved by intellectual arguments. In debates about the ethics of using new biotechnologies to genetically modify human beings, the normal state is one of fundamental disagreement over almost all of the anticipated uses to which the technology could be put. Häyry’s point is that such a state of affairs is not necessarily due to a lack of reason because there are many, equally valid, ways of being reasonable.

13. International ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Richard Shapcott
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Just War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
Moral Duties

This chapter examines how we should think about ethics, starting with three framing questions: Do states and their citizens have significant moral duties to the members of other countries? Should states and their militaries be morally constrained in the conduct of war? Who is morally responsible for the alleviation of global poverty? The chapter proceeds by defining ethics and considering three significant and difficult ethical issues entailed by globalization: cosmopolitanism, statism, and realist ethics. It concludes by examining the ethical dimensions of global poverty and just war. Two case studies are presented, one dealing with the ethics of migration and the other with the ethics of just war. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that debates who bears most responsibility for addressing global warming.

scholarly journals Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction // Impulsos didácticos y distancia estética en la ficción alemana sobre el cambio climático

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Howarth Goodbody
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Although global warming has been a topic of American and British popular fiction since the 1980s, its literary representation has only recently become an object of academic enquiry. Perhaps a score of German novels on the subject have also appeared, and critical analysis of these is now called for. Following a general outline of the socio-political, philosophical, and ethical issues which climate change raises, and of the particular aesthetic challenges which writing about global warming poses, Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) serves as a basis for discussion of the tensions between confessional and didactic impulses on the one hand, and recognition of the need for an aesthetic facilitating detachment on the other.  Resumen               Aunque el calentamiento global ha aparecido en la literatura popular americana y británica desde los años 80, su representación literaria no se ha converitdo en objeto de investigación académica hasta recientemente. Quizá una veintena de novelas alemanas sobre el tema también han aparecido, requiriendo así un análisis critico. Siguiendo un resumen general de los asuntos socio-políticos, filosóficos y éticos que el cambio climático ha planteado, y de los desafíos estéticos particulares que surgen al escribir sobre el calentamiento global, la novela EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) de Ilija Trojanow sirve como base para debatir las tensiones entre los impulsos confesionales y didácticos, por un lado, y sobre el reconocimiento de la necesidad de una estética que facilite el desapego, por otro. 

scholarly journals Theorising mobility justice

Tempo Social ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Climate Crisis

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day, when the entire world faces the urgent question of how to make the transition to more environmentally sustainable and socially just mobilities. All around the planet urban, regional, and international governing bodies are grappling with a series of crises related to how we move: an urban crisis of pollution and congestion, a global refugee crisis of borders and humanitarianism, and a climate crisis of global warming and decarbonisation. This article seeks to think across these crises showing how each is part of a wider disturbance in prevailing institutions concerned with the management of mobilities and immobilities. Mobility justice offers a new way to think across the micro and macro scale of transitioning toward more just mobilities.  

scholarly journals THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN ADAPTATION TO AND MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE: AN ETHICAL MANDATE

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
M. D. Fite
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Environmental Regime ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Global Distributive Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

This article asserts three propositions. First, climate change and/or global warming has (and will continue to have) qualitative differences in its nature and impact on rich and poor countries, thus demonstrating the imperative of adaptation to and mitigation of its effects. Second, the current international environmental regime is insufficient for sensible global distributive justice. What is more, in the absence of an adequate regime the world continues to ignore fundamental ethical issues and the immediate needs of climate-vulnerable countries. Third, the effective preservation of the environment necessitates that developed countries bear the (ethical) responsibility for meeting the costs associated with climate change, and urgently and unremittingly discharge their obligation to assist developing and/or least developed countries in adapting to and mitigating the impact of global warming.

Moral Collapse in a Warming World

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Warming World ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
The Way

In his definitive book A Perfect Moral Storm, ethicist Stephen Gardiner argues that the way forward in a climate-changed world is so difficult in part because we “do not yet have a good understanding of many of the ethical issues at stake in global-warming policy.” We remain confused about such vital questions as who should take responsibility for the current condition, how to preserve equity between generations, and how best to think about our responsibility toward nonhuman animals. The resistance of governments to taking action, attempts by various players to throw sand in the eyes of the public, and specious arguments used to justify an unwillingness to do what is necessary all add to our moral bafflement.

Introduction to Ethical Issues Regarding Global Warming

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Wade Robison ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues
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