Pptx for ethics module

1. Environmental Ethics

2.  Environmental ethics is a branch of ethics that studies the
moral relationship between humans and the natural
environment. It seeks to answer questions such as what
duties we owe to animals, how we should treat the
environment, and how we can create an environmentally
sustainable society.

3.  Environmental Ethics is man’s obligation to preserve
the environment and the nature orders of things.

4.  Moral obligation is a perceive duty to perform an
act as good or to avoid and act as evil. Respect
for the natural order of things point to moral
practice. Man must submit to the demand of
natural law.
Ex. Man must “fit” his technology to ecology

5. Ecology Ethics
 Ecology come from the Greek word “elkos” meaning
home or habitation
 As a science, it is the study of interrelation of
organism and their environment.

6. External forces or conditions acting on an
organism or community organism
1. Climatic Conditions
2.Chemical Conditions
3. Biological Conditions

7. What is Ecology Conscience?
 Ecology conscience is the awareness of man’s
true place as a dependent member of the
biotic community. Its basic principle is “a
thing is right when it tends to preserve the
integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic
community. It is wrong when it tends
otherwise.

8. Functions of Ecological Conscience
 1. To place technology is ecological perspective
before man is destroyed by the side effects of his
own tools.
 2. To permit the western nation to make sacrifices
necessary to equalize the gross in equalities
between the industrialized and undeveloped nation
without wrecking havoc on the unique and
irreplaceable values.

9.  3. To expose the foolishness of reliance on
ecologically in same military machines.
CHANGES IN THE ECOSYSTEM
 4. Ecological Succession- is the general change
in the kind of organism that occupies an are by
constant change wherein a specie is eliminated
and other species are able to invade.

10.  5. Economy Stability- is the capacity to resist or
endure from external forces stability can be
preserved by persisting change that is adding
some organisms and losing. Some trees may
disappear but others may take their place.

11.  6. Environmental Stress- each specie has its own
range of tolerance to various chemicals and
physical factors of their abiotic environment or
non-living components like the sun.

12.  Ecosystems are dynamic; there are always change but
they can also resist disturbances. The ability to adopt to
change and restore itself is the most remarkable feature
of the ecosystem but have limits to tolerance. Hence if
tolerance limits exceeds the stress, it can result natural
hazards such as floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
drought and so fort. Example of this are the Taal killer
quake, the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, Mt. Mayon and the
flashfloods of Leyte.

13. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
A. Pollutions
-an undesirable change in characteristics the air,
water, of land can affect health, survival or the
actives of man and other organisms.

14. Types of pollution
1. Air Pollution
includes all contaminations in the atmosphere that can
either be in form of gasses or particle like nitrogen oxides, carbon
dioxides an organic compounds that can evaporate and enter the
atmosphere.

15. Effects:
damage of property
damage of plants and animals
affects human health

16. 2. Water Pollution
occurs when substances like lead degrades the
quality of water making it unhealthy for specific
purposes some sources of water pollution are from
untreated sewages from cities and industrial oil spillage,
agricultural pollution, mine tailings and garbage's.

17. Control measures:
 Soil conservation
 Sowing treatment
 Water management
 Recycling

18.  3. Land Pollution
Takes place when harmful substances are introduced
to the soil so that it is unable to sustain life, the
general sources of land pollution are solid waste
domestic, commercial and industrial activity and
agricultural pollutions from insecticides and
fertilizers.

19. Control measures:
 Plant more trees
 Re-use materials
 Creating awareness
 Waste treatment
 Use manure for agriculture
 Cut down on the use of pesticide

20.  4. Noise Pollution
is the presence of sound so loud or so sudden or
unpleasant that become an assault on the body
causing mental and physical harms. One decibel is
the faintness sound to the human ear.

21. Control measures
 Reduce noise at its source.
 Replace noisy machines to Less noisy one’s.
 Reduce amount of noise entering the human ear.

22.  An average human ear can tolerate 50 decibels
but above 50 decibels is already considered
dangerous to health which may cause damages,
raise blood pressure level and the most
consequent of noise is that it can cause metal
derangement and even death (NPCC:1992).

23. Thank you.