Sustainability in economics
ENVIRONMENTAL AND BUSINESS ETHICS (25 points)
Read the three papers, answer the questions below, and submit with your Writing Assignment #1
Please fully explain, do not answer with only yes or no.
William Blackstone (1974) Ethics and Ecology
1) Does Blackstone argue that the right to a livable environment should be a human right? Why?
2) Does Blackstone think businesses provide solutions to pollution and ecological impairment? Why or Why not?
3) Does Blackstone argue certain individual freedoms and rights be restricted to improve public welfare and equality of rights? Why?
4) Why do you think there are not uniform antipollution laws and regulation for all businesses (p359)?
Kristen Shrader-Frechette (1991) Ethics and the Environment
5) How are Shrader-Frechette and Blackstone’s arguments for rights to a livable environment similar?
6) Why does Shrader-Frechette argue we should protect the rights of future generations?
Payne and Raiborn (2001)
7) What is the definition of sustainable development given in Payne and Raiborn (2001)?
8) What are the four sensitive issues inherent in the definitions of sustainable development?
9) Do regulations always help businesses be sustainable and reduce pollution? Why or why not?
10) What are the four levels of sustainable development efforts for businesses?