Ethics and the Environment
One of the most eminent challenges societies around the world is to find practical and economic ways to bring the benefits of economic growth to the developing world without damaging the environment. Whereas Beijing is the number one in the least of air polluters, Mexico City, the world's second largest city ranks on place four of the megacities with the most polluted air of any major metropolitan area in the world. There should be a combined consecutive approach of scientists and politicians guided by principles of ethics in government to make to transform the recommendations the scientific world operative.
I have chosen to review the following articles: Platt, Holden K. (9 July 2009) on "Chinese Air Pollution Deadliest in World." Platt wrote this article for the "National Geographic News" which is a magazine published by the National Geographic Society, based in Washington, D.C., USA. Existing since...
Its interests include geography and national science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. Its historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural, historical, and natural resources (see Homepage of General Geographic). It is certainly a reputable organ in the above-mentioned areas. Platt's audience are people with a profound interest in environmental issues, many of them most likely with a scientific and/or environmental background. This being said, the author is certainly a reliable source of information in the field of environmental issues. The author's focus is exclusively on the situation in China. Contrary to the findings of the author of the "Ethics Environment Case Study," Platt's view of the situation in China is far less optimistic.…
