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Ethical technosphere:Who is responsible?

Explore the ethical problems surrounding energy sources, the impact on future generations, and the responsibility of individuals, companies, and nations. Discuss the hazardous dense haze, air ethics, and the unethical response to hydro-electric power projects. Are nations acting ethically or politically?

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Ethical technosphere:Who is responsible?

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  1. Ethical technosphere:Who is responsible? Dominik, Dmitry, Girma, Jia and Ruisheng 2014-02-05

  2. Gulf of Mexico oil spill Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Hazardous dense haze

  3. Ethical problems with energy sources • Satisfy current needs at the cost of future generations? • No perfect alternative plan • Wind, Solar, Biofuel, Gas, Coal..Cheaper but dirty alternatives • Affected groups of people: • Everybody, Taxpayers, Our children, People affected by power stations, Companies • Consider • Healthy planet for future generations • Energy prices for global competitiveness • Research, development, overlap with global demand

  4. Air ethics - hazardous dense haze  • Human right: Breath clean air not to damage the health • Causes: coal, vehicles and industrial dust • Solutions: clean energy; clean or less vehicles;  strict control on industry production energy (vide supra) vehicles vs bicycles (no one can opt out) industry structural adjustments • people's health should not be the victims of the economic development

  5. Do nations act ethically or politically? - A hydro-electric power project on Nile river. The Nile river is the world's longest river in the world flowing 6,700 kilometers through ten countries. In May 7, 1929, Egypt and the United Kingdom signed the Nile Agreement and Later Sudan accepted the Nile Agreement in 1959. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is under construction and is expected to generate 6,000 MW of electricity. The Dam has created tension and unethical response from Egypt higher government officials.

  6. Conclusion: Eco-terrorism – do you want to be misled? “In the event that I am reincarnated I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to overpopulation.” Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (President of WWF 1981 – 1996) “It does not matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true... You are what media define you to be. Greenpeace became a myth, and a myth-generating machine.” David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace) “Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.” Harold Lewis, UCSB (in a letter resigning from the American Physical Society)

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