Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Are you ETHICAL!?
In newsnight tonight a new journalist took to the stage and wanted (no sorry told by his editor) to become ethical. So what does this mean? There seems to be alot of debate on its definition as well as how to become one. For example, is it ethical to buy coffee beans from Kenya to support their economy or do you not buy them because oh the environmental cost of shipping them over? Another example, do u fly on holiday to Indonesia which was hit by the Tsunami in 2004 to support them or because it would cause environmental damage flying over you don’t bother going? But if you want to help against Climate Change do you as an individual think you can make any difference? Lets face it we need states (i.e. US, Third World, China) to make serious action. You need a collective agreement rather than individuals doing something. If you’re asking well if we all did it then it would be collective. Well in a way yes, but ideally it should be the individuals voting politicians in that have policies to deal with these issues. That argument was put forward in the programme so maybe its time the Conservatives (which i think they are) to get policies that are environmentally friendly. I've only spoken about climate change but there are other issues out there. So what do you think: How do you become ethical, or more to the point can u be ethical?! I have probably opened more questions than answers can u answer them?
# posted by Rich @ 11:11 pm 
