Ethical Analysis of News Issue

Question: Explore ethical analysis of news issue. Answer: Global Sustainability is referred tothe newdivergence of the subject, which makes the connection between future technology, civic engineering and social science. There are many global sustainable issues with great significance, which are, balancing the delicate eco-systems, environment protection, reduction of carbon emissions, renewing fuel source etc. 1. Sustainable issue of global significance: Overall, the global sustainability refers to protecting ecological and human health and natural environment along with innovative ideas without compromising the life style (Winzer, C., 2012). In this assignment, the selected sustainable issue of global significance is energy security, which is a growing concern in emerging and rich nations. 2. Environmental element: Energy securitydeals with the association between accessibility of natural sources for energy utilization and national security. The environmental element in this issue is natural energy resources, like petroleum, renewable energy, nuclear power, natural gas etc. (Mathews and Tan 2014). The world is using the finite and huge amount of these natural resources. The challenges are already coming in production and extraction of these natural fuels. The world depends on these natural sources to a great extent in peak season or way off to peak season. Due to these vast uses, the sources are becoming limited. This is leading to remarkable vulnerabilities due to unequal distribution of energy resources among the nations. So, the economic system of those nations are depending on the cheap energy systems. The production and processing of these sources affecting the environment in terms of pollution (Vivoda 2012). The huge demand of these fuels are making the nations to take the help of any kin d of processes, which have negative impacts in the environment. 3. Social element: Social element of this global sustainability is the social impact of energy security. The energy security is needed due to major industrialization in many nations, like China and India (Cherp et al. 2016). The fuel energy helps to drive the whole society of a nation in all aspects. The industrialization leads to quick depletion of these sources much before their time. This issue has negative influences in the society. Due to this rapid utilization, the competition may occur in the rising countries. This leads to other social hindrances, like, relying on other countries, terrorism, natural disaster, accidents, political instability in those countries (Bohi and Toman 2012). So, it is necessary to focus on the efficient use of these natural energy fuels. It will help to maintain the social balance among those rising nations. It also influences the social life of the common people in the nations. The common people face sudden price hikes at any point of their time due to this expensive p roduction. While, the people are employed in these production industries, but it spoils their social life as well (Mnsson et al. 2014). 4. Economical element: The energy security has major economic influence. The utilization of these energy sources give rise to the depletion of these sources. In the peak of this utilization, there is also not much production of those natural fuels. So, this circumstance is making the nation to depend on the other countries for the supply of these fuels (McCollum et al. 2014). This will effect on the economic structure of the nation. The foreign economical exchanges will be developed with the raising countries due to the reliance of these fuels. In certain cases, the nations can think about their own production of those fossil fuels to quench the thirst of the development. This production also has great impact on the economics of the nation. 5. Ethical problems due to global sustainability: After reviewing the social, economic and environmental elements, it is very necessary to save the natural energy resources. It can also be done through replacing with other natural energy supplements with the same benefits. Such energy supplements are wind energy and nuclear energy (Rasul 2014). Due to the implementation of these energy resources, many ethical issues have arrived in the way. One such ethical issue is the effect of the wind energy on the people of that particular area. According to some people, these wind turbine sites are optimistic and pleasant as it represents the local prosperity and energy on dependence. While most of the people of those areas argue that the large, tall turbines spoil the landscapes and produce loud noise that interacts their daily life (Aalto 2016). Those people over those areas claim to have a syndrome called wind turbine syndrome, which is characterized by memory problems, dizziness, buzzing/ringing, headache, sleep disturbance etc. Another alternative resource of fuel energy is nuclear energy. According to the scientists, the emission of one gram of Uranium 235 can produce enough output, which can help the 100 watt light bulb to stay on continuously for two decades (Jewell et al. 2014). While burning one gram of gasoline will produce the energy, which can put on the light only for eight minutes. This nuclear energy gives rise to certain ethical issues. It is observed that, exposure to the nuclear emission for a long period of time, gives rise to abnormalities in human bodies, like genetic mutation. The radioactive elements act like calcium in the human body, which is easily consumed through food chain. The body can not recognize between the radioactive elements versus the healthy part. Such example is Iodine 131, which is the radioactive version of healthy element (Bohi and Montgomery 2015). The body can not differentiate between these two elements and lead to genetic mutation or cancer. 6. Relevant ethical theory: After reviewing these two ethical issues, it can be said that the ethical theory, which is relevant to these issues are humanistic theory (Belkin et al. 2013). Two well-known psychologists, namely, Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are famous for this theory. According to this theory, people are responsible for their activities and lives. They have all the will and freedom to change their behavior and attitudes. In these two identified ethical issue, it is observed that ultimately human beings are responsible behind these issues and they are the only solutions to resolve these issues through their behaviors and attitudes (Gracceva and Zeniewski 2014). 7. Threats and opportunities: Like other global sustainability issues, energy security exhibits both significant opportunity and threats in any industry. Certain example of that industry is fuel industry. The modern world depend on this vast energy supply in terms of health and security system to communication, transportation. According to the expert, behind each calorie of the produced food in the modern world, ten calories of gas and oil are invested in the forms of running farm equipment, transportation, packaging, pesticide, fertilizer etc. Energy also lays a crucial role in the national security of any nation, as it is utilized to drive any security engine. Due to this huge utilization, the fuel industry is concentrating on the artificial production of these fuels. This production has many threats. First of all, the competition occurs among the developing countries. This high demands of the fuels hike the prices of the fuels, which effects the common people to a great extent. Based on this competition, the u nhealthy rivalry occurs among the actions, which leads to terrorism, natural disasters, accidents (Johansson 2013). The most common threat in the fuel industry is industrial threat. It can be defined as the risk of accidents at the production area. This can be a terrorist attack or can be panned by rival countries to minimize the production of the fuel. The other industrial threat is the life risk of the workers. Both the natural and artificial fuel extraction industries are on the high risk as the fuels are highly flammable. It can lead to any kind of accidents very easily. The associated workers in those industries have high risk to lose their lives at any point of the life. So, this is a great threat for both the nation and the families of the workers. Along with the threats, this fuel production industry also exhibits opportunities to the people of the nation. Due to the high demands, the developing nations can continue with the production. They get the huge chance to experiment with various other fuel resources and their utilization (Awerbuch 2014). Gradually, the nation is enriched with their innovative ideas. This also provides the huge opportunity to the common people, who can get the chance to work in those industries. Overall, the nation becomes highly recognized with their innovative production and can be high ranked in the world. 8. An ethical and sustainable solution: After reviewing this whole global sustainable issue, it is noticed that it gives rise to many reasons of unsustainability and gradually it is leading to the unethical actions. In order to address these issue, many sustainable and ethical researches are conducted, which can underpin the issues through resolving them. One such example is the production of biofuel (Zebda et al. 2013). The biofuel is defined as the fuel, which can be derived from any biological product in anaerobic digestion or agriculture. The production of biofuel is a contemporary process. This fuel is produced either from industrial, domestic, agricultural and commercial wastes or plants directly. This biofuel production not only deals with the ethical and sustainable issues, but also it addresses various barriers like, financial, technological and behavioral barriers. The biofuel production resolves the financial barrier in many ways. First of all, the production process costs much less than the production of other fossil fuels, like coal, petroleum etc. in a general fossil fuel production, a lot of money is invested in the process of planning, discovery, processing and distribution. While the biofuel production does not require these complexities. This process is completely based on the biochemical, thermal and chemical conversion of the biomass. So, there is no need of financial investments. In certain cases, due to the production of the fossil fuel, the government implement various types of tax laws in the country (Wargacki et al. 2012). This effects the economic system of the common people. This biofuel production reduces that financial barrier through removing those taxes. In spite of investing on this production, the government can invest the money in other departments or can save for the future investments. The biofuel production reduces the technological barrier. The general fossil fuel production involves various complex steps, which are completely technology based. In each step of th at production process, it is necessary to use advanced techniques and tools. This is not possible for all countries, especially for the countries, who are financially challenged (MacVittie et al. 2013). In case of biofuel production, the whole process depends on carbon fixation. Instead of any advanced technology and tools, it only depends on the source of the biomass. The chemical fuel production involves the employees who are skilled with advanced technology. In some cases, to maximize the production, the countries are bound to take the help of the foreign countries in terms of the technology. This disturbs both social and economic balance. This complex technology not only increases the price rate, but also pollutes the nature. While bio fuel production is completely natural process. It does not require any technology except some biological waste and time. The production of biofuel also minimizes the behavioral barrier. Due to the huge demands of the fossil fuels, the countries be come competitive in nature. It has a great impact in the political decisions in those countries. In many cases, the tensed situation is observed. It also has negative impacts in the society. The fuel production leads to a huge amount of environment pollution (Barreiro et al. 2013). It effects not only the health of the people, but also they face certain behavioral changes, like, aggressiveness, tiredness, etc. The biofuel production depends on the biomass, which is easily available in all the countries. The countries dont have to depend on other countries in terms of resources or technologies. Any nation can easily implement this bio fuel production. Automatically, this will affect the world politics through reducing the tensed behaviors among the nations. The process in completely natural based, so it improves the social, behavioral lives of the people. 9. Reviewing Turnitin originality report: Answer to Question a: The remaining percentage text match is 1%. Answer to Question b: The source of the text match is DeVry University Online. Answer to Question c: The reason behind this match is specific data. Answer to Question d: No, the author has not removed any text matches. It was 1% after uploading in turnitin. 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