Pollution – the Ethics of Environmental Issue

Ethical issues Reflection 

Pollution – The ethics of environmental issue

Pollutions have been an environment issues for years that human faces today. Businesses damage the environment when they act on business activities that take natural from the Earth and dispose of waste (Dowey 2015). I deem human have to pay attention and take action to address the issue rather than just ignore it. “As you make your bed, you must lie on it” - I believe that human would probably torture after thousand years because of the harm produced from business activities. For example, the polluted water poisons fishes in the ocean that harmful to human’s body and led to break the marine food-chain.

Pollution uses up clean air and water, just as extraction uses up the minerals or oil underground (Shaw et al. 2013, p.323). Air and water are contaminated by the industries by turning raw materials into useful goods in the manufacturing process, along with waste material left over that may harmful to the environment. I think the problems have raised not only the pollution but also business responsibility, further generations, the environmental ethics and environmental protection. I recall the term corporate social responsibility (CSR) I have learnt in the business ethics course, an enterprise should comply with ethical’s law and responsible for the operation of all stakeholders, not only responsible to the shareholders (Shaw et al. 2013, p.196). I agree that the enterprise is not only contributed to economic development, but also improve the overall quality of life of local communities and society.

Willian T. Blackstone argues that each of us has a human right to a liveable environment (Shaw et al. 2013, p.326). If human injure future generations substantially to gain some small benefit for ourselves, we are being as selfish and short-sighted because