Human Values and Professional Ethics: Submitted To Dr. Khushbu Batra, Assistant Professor, Ash Dept
Human Values and Professional Ethics: Submitted To Dr. Khushbu Batra, Assistant Professor, Ash Dept
Human Values and Professional Ethics: Submitted To Dr. Khushbu Batra, Assistant Professor, Ash Dept
SUBMITTED TO
DR. KHUSHBU BATRA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR,ASH DEPT
SUBMITTED BY :
NAME : APARNA TYAGI
ROLL NO : 35415602816
SECTION : F4
Q1. Discuss professional responsibility and engineering ethics?
Professional responsibility surrounds the duties of person to act in a professional
manner,obey the law,avoid conflicts of interest, and put the interest of clients ahead of their
own interest. Engineering has emerged as a strong profession with governing bodies helping
to set it up. Ethics in engineering is the ability as well as responsibility of an engineer to
judge his decision from the context of general well being of the society.
Professional responsibilities are of two types:
Q2. What are the ethical issues or questions that arises in environmental
protection?(reference to covid-19)
Environmental ethics is a philosophical discipline that considers the moral and ethical
relationship of human beings to the environment in other words: what if any moral obligation
does man have to preservation and care of the non-human world. While ethical issues
concerning the environment has been debated over the centuries, environmental ethics did
not emerge as philosophical discipline until 1970’s. Its emergence was the result of increased
awareness of how the rapidly growing population was impacting the environment as well as
environmental consequences that came with the growing use of the pesticides, technology
and the industry.Environmental ethics helps define man’s moral and ethical obligation
towards the environment. Environmental ethics along with human values, makes for
challenging philosophical debates about man’s interaction with the environment
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus.The disease
causes respiratory illness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more
severe cases, difficulty breathing. You can protect yourself by washing your hands
frequently, avoiding touching your face, and avoiding close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with
people who are unwell.Coronavirus disease spreads primarily through contact with an
infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface
or object that has the virus on it, then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.
The temporary restraint of air and car travel could lead to cleaner air.
The quarantine time could lead to more use of single-use plastics, which could
find a their way into our bodies of water
A benefit of limiting travel is we will spend some time rethinking how we use
energy
Air pollution makes people sick and kills people. The environmental news website.Earther
has an interactive map that shows how air pollution has changed the last couple of months. It
shows the air quality from back in December until March. Furthermore, with more and more
consumers isolated at home, there has been an increasing number of online purchases and
meal deliveries made. This has not only caused the disposal of more single-use plastic
packaging, but has further required more fossil fuels to be burned for the individual
transportation and distribution of goods. There has also been an increase in medical waste -
much of the personal protective equipment that healthcare professionals are using can only
be worn once before being disposed of. Hospitals in Wuhan(china), for example, produced
over 200 tons of waste per day during the peak of their outbreak, compared to an average of
less than 50 tons prior.
The effects of economic downturn and quarantine have hit the poor the hardest - those that
do not have access to unemployment insurance, those who live paycheck to paycheck, and
those who do not have social safety nets bear the economic brunt of the crisis.
Unemployment is reaching record highs and trillions have been pledged by governments to
help restore their economies.
Healthy ecosystems can support economic growth, societal wellbeing and climate
stabilization. As such, while encroachment and the misuse of nature is increasingly being
thought of as a source of future pandemics, nature also offers solutions that we desperately
need to recover from this crisis and to build our resilience to face others. The practical
purpose of environmental ethics is to maintain and provide moral grounds for social policies
aimed at protecting the earth’s environment and remedying the environmental
degradation .Many traditional western perspective ,however are anthropocentric or human
centered in that either they assign intrinsic value to human beings alone or they assign a
significantly greater amount of intrinsic value to human beings than to any non-human things
such that protection or promotion of human interest turns out to be nearly always justified.
Environmental ethics along with human values makes for a challenging philosophical
debates about man’s interaction with the environment.
If one disease can provide wisdom beyond our comprehension of how fragile, interconnected
and precious life is, the COVID-19 offers a excess of lessons on a personal, regional and
planetary level. Crises like COVID-19 show the urgency to promote necessary
transformations for our society to survive in the 21st century. It can be a good reminder that
in any breakdown, there is always a chance for breakthrough.
Coronavirus is showing us that we really can unite our actions to solve global
problems and do it quite quickly in spite of many obstacles and in the face of
economic difficulties. The lockdowns we see around the world are forcing us to slow
down, take stock and start thinking about our future – what kind of world do we want
to see in a decade, or even earlier?
The virus has given us a good lesson: if we reduce our impact on nature, she will
return the favour with fresh air, clean water and bounteous ecosystem services. Nature
is enjoying this small break from us, our daily grind and environmental footprint.
This outbreak has definitely force consumers and businesses to go digital. We can see
transformation and innovation it brings on all fronts, pushing us to leave outdated
modes of doing things.
Think twice before buying something. Do you really need it? Try and choose reusable
and low carbon footprint consumables.
Mother nature has given us a strong signal through this pandemic: we must change
our habits and slow down if we are going to continue living on this planet. It is a
perfect time to make people realize on a global level that flattening the curve of
climate change and environmental destruction is just as important as flattening the
curve for COVID-19. It’s a perfect time to formulate and refine your ideas and put the
planning and strategy in place to make them happen.