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Assignment #7
WEEK SEVEN: Applied Ethics: Environmental Stewardship
Chapter 10: Environmental Stewardship. Review Case 10.1, 10.3, 10.5
Assignment – Be prepared to answer these questions:
- What obligation does Business have to the protect environment?
- If the role of business is not to “make the laws” – this is the role of Government, then why is business at fault when they strictly adhere to the law? Why are they expected to go beyond what the law prescribes?
- What is the difference between Hoffman’s Biocentrism and Derr’s Homocentrism?
- Does Gen 1: 28 mean?
- Does Gen 1:2
- Nature’s purpose is to serve man
- We are to save & serve nature
- Name the major issues with which to grapple concerning ethics and environment.
- To what is the manufacturing process changing, from its current focus on limiting the “end of pipe” liabilities?
- How successful was Frito-Lay in developing biodegradable packaging?
- How quick are Americans to respond to environmental change?
- Who should decide how clean (air & water) an environment should be?
- How do we best get business to focus on environmental issues?
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LDST 330 Week 7 Assignment
1.
Business has an obligation to protect the environment as part of its corporate social
responsibility plans. However, beyond this, there is also the moral obligation for every business,
and virtually every person on the planet to protect the environment to ensure sustainability, and
an ability for the future generation to enjoy it. This means that an enterprise must protect the
environment because it is part of the same environment, and its destruction would ultimately
have an impact on the business. In a nutshell, the business has a moral responsibility to protect
the environment, stemming from the human nature of the executives. It also has a legal
responsibility since endangered trees, and animals are protected by regulations in specific
countries. Finally, this should be a corporate social responsibility matter (Aluchna and Idowu).
2.
Business must always seek to go beyond the law because this allows it to exercise
responsibility to the community in a manner that allows for deeper bonding (Hopkins). For
example, laws often require that the environment is preserved, and no one should interfere with
its state against the regulations. However, government agencies, and environmental activists
often are thinly spread financially, ...
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