Ethical Issues in Use of Solar Energy

Ethical Issues in Use of Solar Energy

Introduction

Production and solar energy use, both in general terms as from the different solar energy sources, have undeniable ethical implications. Issues such as access to solar energy and economic development, equity in the distribution of economic resources, environmental impact intra-and intergenerational or consumption of exhaustible resources are determined by the use made of solar energy or solar energy source is used, what other choices involve a greatly assumption of certain ethical values. This text proposes while the decisions taken with regard to solar energy political, with the highest possible level of consensus, and a relevant role of science in regard to production of appropriate information for the process, and development of innovations that allow the extent possible to minimize ethical dilemma exists.

Discussion and analysis

The decisions associated with production, transportation and solar energy use have different consequences on society: the distribution of wealth, its impact on the environment, its long-term, or the settings society itself, all aspects of great importance from the point of ethically. However, the fact is that unless timely - work done within the framework of UNESCO.

Ethical issues associated with solar energy have not been addressed specifically in literature, much less in society. In fact, until few years ago, solar energy decisions perceived problems fundamentally technical: how to achieve solar energy supply a sufficient level of reliability at the lowest possible cost. But this only made ??sense under the assumption that resources were to Unlimited certain extent, and thus its social opportunity cost was almost zero. In recent years, however, science is showing us that this is not true. There are not not not not unlimited solar energy resources - a sample this is the current discussion about "peak oil", nor are the environmental resources - especially the ability our planet to absorb the emissions of greenhouse gases- and obviously not our resources are unlimited economic. (Kaltschmitt, 2007)

This limitation of resources brings out an opportunity cost significantly associated with our decisions; especially taking into account the objectives that arise regularly in the course of politics solar energy are conflicting: You cannot simultaneously achieve solar energy supply at low cost, low environmental impact, and under exhaustible solar energy resources consumption. So in fact already means some of the institutions responsible for making decisions on solar energy, which seek to reflect these different opportunity costs in their decisions. Common and also a way to put this decision process presence of limited resources are in the context of sustainability. Thus, each It is increasingly common discussion about the sustainability of the model current solar energy, and possible solutions for it. In general, the analysis from the perspective of sustainability mainly reflected concerns about resource depletion, or the environmental impact of solar energy. However, their treatment of issues of social equity is usually instrumental, in purity, the only relevant for the analysis is whether a particular social structure is sustainable or not, regardless of ethical evaluation. 

In fact, there may be less acceptable social structures from the ethical point of ...