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This 5 page paper uses W.H. Shaw’s book “Business Ethics” as a starting point to discuss the responsibilities of multinational companies with regard to the environment. Specifically, it considers whether companies should develop different standards for each country in which they operate. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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our survival in jeopardy. The business community has to take some responsibility for its failure to respond to this crisis, and in fact, for embracing policies that exacerbate environmental problems.
This paper uses the case study of "Poverty and Pollution" as a starting point for a discussion of the responsibilities of international companies with regard to the environment. Specifically, it
argues that companies should vary their environmental policies to fit the circumstances of each country in which they operate. Discussion The case study in question tells of a small valley
in Brazil that is so heavily polluted that approximately one in ten factory workers has a low white-cell count, which could be a precursor to leukemia; and where in one
year, 13,000 people (out of a population of 40,000) had respiratory problems requiring medical attention (Shaw). However, the people of the valley dont complain, because the pollution means jobs. In
effect, they are trapped in a life-threatening situation because they are poor. One critic, Lawrence Summers, doesnt seem to find this distressing. In his view, pollution and poverty go hand
in hand, because of the economic aspects of both. Summerss views are so extreme that a reader might be forgiven for hoping that hes making a bad joke (similar to
President Bushs idiotic remarks at the recent environmental summit) or that hes writing a Swiftian satire, but it appears that the man is serious. He says that the "costs of
health-impairing pollution depend on the earnings forgone from increased injury and death. So polluting should be done in the countries with the lowest costs-that is, with the lowest wages" (Shaw).
In other words, if people are going to miss work and/or die because their company is a polluter, its better if theyre lower-paid workers. In Summerss words, "The economic logic
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