QUESTIONS (A): 1. How does personal wealth relate to ethics? Can you provide personal examples? 2. Why do industries pollute? 3. Why would normal economic forces work against pollutions control? Do you feel that this is changing? 4. Is it reasonable to expect a totally unpolluted environment? Why or why not? QUESTIONS (B): 5. What has been the dominant societal attitude toward resource use? 6. Describe the differences between development, preservation, and ethics? 7. What is a major motivating force of corporate management? 8. Why do decision makers view the actions of corporations differently from the way they view the actions of individuals?

1. Group 12:
1. LAO SOKKEANG (ID: 2119639)
2. OL KIMMEY (ID: 2120522)
3. RITH CHHAINGIM (ID: 2121245)
4. PHAI MINEA (ID: 2119055)
5. OSOTH RATANADAVID (ID: 2119875)

2. REVIEW QEUSTIONS
QUESTIONS (A):
1. How does personal wealth relate to ethics? Can you provide personal examples?
2. Why do industries pollute?
3. Why would normal economic forces work against pollutions control? Do you feel that
this is changing?
4. Is it reasonable to expect a totally unpolluted environment? Why or why not?
QUESTIONS (B):
5. What has been the dominant societal attitude toward resource use?
6. Describe the differences between development, preservation, and ethics?
7. What is a major motivating force of corporate management?
8. Why do decision makers view the actions of corporations differently from the way
they view the actions of individuals?

3. ANSWER PART (A):
1. How does personal wealth relate to ethics? Can you provide personal examples?
Answer 1:
Personal wealth is very a main factor that relate to ethic (especially environmental
ethic) because like individuals, we should have a fundamental ethical responsibility to
respect nature and to care for the Earth. And we have to recognize that each of us is
individually responsible for the quality of the environment we live in and that our
personal actions and person wealth affect environmental quality for better or worse. For
example: personal wealth includes our specific person's assets, money, car, house, and
value of possessions.
2. Describe the differences between development, preservation, and ethics?
Answer 2:
Industry is naturally dirty because it consumes energy and resources, and it produces
waste that must be discarded/throw away. Proper waste disposal and energy consumption
can be costly, and ultimately reduce profits for the company. Many companies choose to
pollute in order to cut down cost in exchange for higher profits. In industry workers
always do many works like, procuring raw materials, manufacturing and marketing, and
disposing if waste. So industry or company has adopted pollution as a corporate policy,
and corporation are legal entities designed to operate at a profit. In our industrial world,
discarding materials taken from the Earth at great cost is also generally unwise. Perhaps
material and products that are no longer in use should be termed residues rather than
waste, so industrials need to pollute to environment after their products or material can’t
use anymore, they will waste it out.
3. Why would normal economic forces against pollution control? Do you feel that is
changing?
Answer 3:
Because it doesn’t want to lose benefits or bankrupt or go down the, factories or
industries. If it doesn’t force against pollution control, it is going to reduce the benefits
from the factories or industries. Nowadays, before they generate or build something just

4. like industry or factory, they always consider about the environment first how to prevent
or how find the solution to deal with or solve with it. For instance, they have an industry
to find mine in the ground. Procuring raw materials (Mine is in the ground). In order to
get the mine, we have to cut the trees. When we cut the trees, it makes animals lose or
don’t have their refuge/shelter. So, it causes trouble to the environment. However, when
they dig the ground, it leads to have smoke move/go to in the air, the dusty ground cause
to atmosphere, and the sound makes the animals afraid or run away. When they get the
mine, they have to take it to wash. The water that wash these mine it flows/drain into the
water to lake, stream, river, or sea. When they wash that mine already and these mines
are not pure, so they have to use chemical substances to divide it. After they utilise, those
chemical substances drop or drain to the water. So, it harms to the environment. o If they
don’t force against pollution control, they have to obey or respect the laws or policies of
the environment or United Nation. So, they have to think about polluting from their
industry or find the solution to deal with or solve those problems.
4. Is it reasonable to expect a totally unpolluted environment? Why or why not?
Answer 4:
No, it is not. Because the production of waste is inevitable when processing raw
materials. The by-product of processing needs to be considered a residue rather than a
waste, and the residues need to be recycled or a new use should be found. So, it is
probably not reasonable to expect a totally unpolluted environment; manufacturers should
consider it a goal in which they should attempt to achieve.
ANSWER PART (B):
5. What has been the dominant societal attitude toward resource use?
Answer 5:
The dominant societal attitude that has been toward resource use is business and
technological development that have increased the exploitation to natural resource. For
example, the energy industries need a lot of fossil fuel and some other technological such
desalination which remove salt from seawater also takes a lot of energy.

5. 6. Describe the differences between development, preservation, and the conservation
ethics. Must there always be conflict among these ethics?
Answer 6:
The development ethic – based on individualism or egocentrism. It assumes that the
human race is and should be the master of nature and that the Earth and its resources exist
for our benefit and pleasure.
It means that human is the master of natural resources includes: biological
resources/living things and physical resources/non-living things. However, human has
right to take or use the natural resources depend on they want because all of them belong
to the human.
The preservation ethic - considers nature special in itself. Nature has intrinsic value or
inherent worth apart from human appropriation. o It means that we should
preserve/keep/save the natural resources for fresh, beautiful, clean air, not to cut down or
touch them, or human relax the stress for fun. This moral don’t care about economics.
The conservation ethic – also called the management ethic. It is related to the
scientific preservationist view but extends the rational consideration to the entire Earth
and for all time. o It means that we should balance between natural resources and
development. This moral is about green growth economics or blue economics. For
example, if one area has less short forests or it don’t have much important for animals or
people, we should develop it to be farm area/rice field or paddy field for people grow
crops or plant rice. If an area has a lot of big forests; it is very significant for animals or
birds to live, find food, or give birth/deliver a baby. Or it is essential/necessary for people
to bring advantage from the forests, we should prevent or preserve together in order to
sustainable.
7. What is a major motivating force of corporate management?
Answer 7:
The major motivating force of corporate management is profitability because
stockholders expect immediate return on their investment. The profits of corporate
management are about the environment and the profits of business because the

6. environment is supremely significant for all biological resources/organisms or physical
resources on the Earth. However, they have to practice in balance. It means that we get
both the benefits from corporate management and help or protect the environment. For
example, we have the land one hundred Ares or one hectare to plant the rice. First of all,
we consider about the environment when we plant the rice. Rice can live in condition
good when it has enough water, shine, fertilize, or insecticide (chemical substance to kill
or protect the insect). Our rice only uses natural fertilize (dung) and merely utilize
insecticide one time in one year. Let’s say we get input from our rice 5 tons in one year
when we use like this and in order to protect the environment and help our land long-used
as well.
8. Why do decision makers view the actions of corporations differently from the way
they view the actions of individuals?
Answer 8:
Decision makers view the actions of corporations differently from the way they view
the actions of corporations of individuals because when we are corporate in the groups, it
is easy to share opinion or experiences or to deal with or solve the problems. When
someone produces something that lead to something bad or wrong, the member of the
groups help to tell or correct to be better. For instance, we are corporate to build/generate
a factory. We have a lot of idea how to get the benefits from the factory and how to
protect the environment. First of all, getting the benefits from the factory by helping
people has a job to do in the factory reduce the rate of unemployment in the country.
Secondly, if we have factories, they can supply the material or something in the country
let’s say the factories produce clothes. Finally, these factories can help economic of the
country increased. How to protect the environment when we are corporate. We know that
when we create the factories, they are polluted a lot of smoke, waste, or polluted water. In
order to prevent the smoke, we can buy the layer to cover smoke tube so as to reduce the
chemical substances. Moreover, the waste has to pack in the sack or litter bins in order.
Furthermore, we should dig a well in order to stock the water that flow or drain from the
factories or recycling that water if we have ability. When you do individual, you know
you harm the environment. It means that you think it justice.