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A 10 page paper discussing the fallacy of myths surrounding environmentalism; providing concrete examples in opposition to those myths; and discussing ethics within the utilitarian perspective. Examples include Dow Chemical's abandonment of I,I,I trichloroethane well in advance of the ban on it and how the company used to ban to serve the environment while also enhancing its own business opportunities. Other examples include a Swedish city using industrial waste heat for city apartment buildings; a Dutch shrimp farm using waste heat to make shrimp production possible in the North Sea; and an urban planner's observations that the belief that wide suburban streets are more desirable is not supported by research results. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSenvEthics.rtf
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be dead in seven years!" So prophesied actor Ted Danson more than 20 years ago in the environmental Chicken Little alarm that encouraged everyone to "save the earth."
Clearly, the ocean is still alive, and even Ralph Nader has given up his campaign to rid Los Angeles of cars. Well-meaning but misinformed and misdirected groups and individuals
so trivialized environmental issues that those with the means and ability to make real differences in essence tuned them out. Varying Views As
businesses increasingly are called to accountability on other matters, environmental issues gain attention as well. Stakeholders and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) call for increased social responsibility, and Sarbanes-Oxley demands financial
responsibility. In many ways today, environmental responsibility gains attention by default. These changes already have affected the paradigms influencing public perception of
sustainability. To complaints of change being too expensive and problems being too pervasive to address, some companies such as Dow Chemical have provided lessons refuting those claims. One
view holds that humans are above the rest of the world, but clear examples of ecological destruction (i.e., the Amazon rainforest and desertification in Haiti) at the hands of humans
negate that argument. The fatalistic argument that humans are just naturally parasitic increasingly is shown to be fallacious, as is the view that environmental conditions are not "bad" enough
to warrant any overt concern or action. Another stumbling block is that attached to the concept that individuals must pay for benefits they
receive. Industrial ecology is a growing discipline which takes a whole-system view of all the byproducts of manufacturing and industrial activity, rather than only heeding chemical byproducts. A Swedish
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