The Ethics Behind Conservation
When considering the natural environment and resources, that come from it, it's not hard to figure out that we are quickly depleting all of them available, faster than they can be replenished. Not to mention the resent natural disasters have caused mass flooding, forest fires the size of football fields, and devastating earthquakes leaving countries in a terrible sate. Since, our species survival depends on natural resources, it's vital that we invest in ways to use our resources more efficiently. While the general mentality between corporations and the environment is often seen as separate, both of theses are closer than one would think. This is where conservation scientist makes the connection between the two. Since ethics are all around us, it goes without saying that there are certain rules that must be adhered to when working in this line of field.
For starters, a conservation scientist, is an individual who spends time in the field collecting samples while working in remote locations. But the importance of the job is when they perform analysis in the wake of natural disasters. Once all the data has been collected and is ready for analysis, then the scientist help in the restoration of the lad before heading into the laboratory. Unlike other careers out there, is one seems to be out of the ordinary, since your office is located out in fields. What makes this career so appealing is that, for the most part I've always enjoyed spending time in the wilderness. But at the same time, one would have to be familiar with working indoors from a nine to five job, so in short, the best of both worlds. You aren't confined to a cubical, but you have an ethical responsibility to behave in a manner that promotes competence and diligent work behavior. It then follows hierarchy of ethics, originating from the workers to the obligation of the company. This job position is a government job, so the company is the United States of America.
Just like any other job, honesty is important, however there has been times when ethical honesty was compromised in order to obtain information that should have been confidential. In 2012 Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of environment protection organization the Pacific Institute, admitted to assuming a false identity in order to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute. While this action might not have placed people in direct danger, the way a manufacturing error would, it still stained the idea of ethics that should be upheld as a conservation scientist.
Sources:
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/02/24/berkeley-based-scientist-admits-to-ethical-violations/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/environmental-ethics-96467512
For starters, a conservation scientist, is an individual who spends time in the field collecting samples while working in remote locations. But the importance of the job is when they perform analysis in the wake of natural disasters. Once all the data has been collected and is ready for analysis, then the scientist help in the restoration of the lad before heading into the laboratory. Unlike other careers out there, is one seems to be out of the ordinary, since your office is located out in fields. What makes this career so appealing is that, for the most part I've always enjoyed spending time in the wilderness. But at the same time, one would have to be familiar with working indoors from a nine to five job, so in short, the best of both worlds. You aren't confined to a cubical, but you have an ethical responsibility to behave in a manner that promotes competence and diligent work behavior. It then follows hierarchy of ethics, originating from the workers to the obligation of the company. This job position is a government job, so the company is the United States of America.
Just like any other job, honesty is important, however there has been times when ethical honesty was compromised in order to obtain information that should have been confidential. In 2012 Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of environment protection organization the Pacific Institute, admitted to assuming a false identity in order to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute. While this action might not have placed people in direct danger, the way a manufacturing error would, it still stained the idea of ethics that should be upheld as a conservation scientist.
Sources:
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/02/24/berkeley-based-scientist-admits-to-ethical-violations/
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/environmental-ethics-96467512
I enjoy the way he brought up key ideas on how ethics could play out in his area of Mechanical Engineer. One thing that you might want to put in would be the a historical event that has happened in your field of engineering that might have crossed the line of ethics, because the prompt does ask for a historical event as well I do not believe is has to be a huge problem that has happened in your field. I personally do not know much of what mechanical engineers do and after reading this it gives me a bit more of an understanding of what they are capable of doing.
ReplyDeleteThe research that you have done for this assignment is good and provides context to what you're talking about. Unfortunately, with a format like this, nobody will want to read it! Where are your paragraph breaks? Also, this strikes me as very short, overall. We could have used more information for each concept your introduce.
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