Poverty and Pollution

Poverty and Pollution

Introduction

Businesses are not only linked to money and finance, but certain other factors including environment and the ethical considerations should also be considered as all these are linked to the health and well being of human beings. All the developed and first world countries of the world are now making efforts to ensure that businesses and industries are designed in such a manner that it does not affect the environment in any way. This implies that the businesses should be operated in environment friendly manner, to ensure that the overall benefit of the world and the atmosphere is not threatened for the temporary benefit of a few individuals.

Ethical implications of business polluting a third world country and rationale

The problems and issues of third world countries are both diverse and all linked to one another, which imply that one problem is promoting the other and vice versa, thus the problems and issues are going on in chains and whole the system has to be treated to ensure sustainable development. For instance, the economic backwardness of the third world countries is leading them to have an ignorant attitude towards the environment and atmosphere, which gives rise to health issues and life expectancy and so on.

Most of the businesses operating in the third world countries do not pay much heed to environmental considerations, and generally operating without dumping houses and other precautionary measures. In the absence of dumping house, all the dangerous and hazardous waste is either dumped in the open or is thrown in the sea or river, where it not only endangers sea life but also pollutes water of the seas and rivers (Levy and Newell, 2004). In addition, the cooling systems, air conditioners and the generators operating in offices are becoming the cause of green house effect, thus adding to environmental pollution and atmospheric temperature, which is highly unethical as well as immoral.

Reasons for a business to operate in third world country without regard to pollution control

There are a number of business already operating in the third world countries without any regard to the environmental considerations, and thus are adding to the environmental pollution as well as atmospheric contamination on daily basis. However, keeping in view the high rate of atmospheric pollution and the high rate of pollutants in the environment, it can be said that if there are some other business interested in operating in these areas, they should be allowed to do so. This is due to the fact that the third world countries are in dire need to economic support and any business that provides, or is expected to provide economic support to the economy of the third world countries, is welcomed by the government of these countries. This implies that although the environmental concerns are important and need to be addressed, in case of third world countries, economic support and maintenance is more important and should thus business should be allowed to operate even if they do not comply with the ...