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Take one brutal environmental issue and discuss it with any of the following ethical principles. 1. justice and sustainability; 2. sufficiency and compassion; 3. solidarity

Take one brutal environmental issue and discuss it with any of the following ethical principles.
1. justice and sustainability;
2. sufficiency and compassion;
3. solidarity and participation.

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Answer As per guideline given in the question consider the issue that is Pollution Now we discussed it as per structure given in question Pollution 1 justice and sustainability Examples of environmental burdens that may be considered under the umbrella of environmental justice cover many aspects of community life These burdens can include any environmental pollutant hazard or disadvantage that compromises the health of a community or its residents For instance one of the environmental justice issues and examples is inadequate access to healthy food Certain communities particularly lowerincome or minority communities often lack supermarkets or other sources of healthy and affordable foods Another issue is inadequate transportation While public transportation may be available in urban areas policies must be monitored to avoid cuts in service and fare hikes that make it difficult for community residents to pursue employment or an adequate living standard Air and water pollution are major environmental justice issues Because many lowerincome or minority communities are located near industrial plants or waste disposal sites air and water quality can suffer if not properly monitored These communities may also contain older and unsafe homes Older homes are more likely to have leadbased paint that can chip and find its way into the dust and soil surrounding the home leading to illness These houses may also be prone to structural problems mold or other hazards that put residents at higher risk of health problems 2 sufficiency and compassion of water pollution e principle of sufficiency mandates that all forms of life are entitled to enough goods to live on and flourish The principle also means no one should waste or hoard resources intended for the sufficiency of all Upholding the norm of sufficiency makes demands upon individuals to share to live more simply to think creatively and on human communities to ensure that everyone has access to the goods that they need to live a life of dignity The ethical norm of sufficiency is closely tied to the notion of moral significance which means that something is worthy of our ethical concern This means that we include the needs of others in our consideration of what is important or worthy of our concern When we consider the needs of others such as poor individuals in our society or poor countries in the world we are asserting the moral principle of sufficiency This principle helps us think about whom else we need to consider to whom we have moral duties It underlies the practice of empathy This principle can conflict at least in some peoples minds with the notion that the Earth does not have sufficient goods to meet everyones needs Compassion extends the notion of sufficiency to the Earth Environmental ethics asserts that other animals plants and the elements such as water soil or air are morally significant and that humans have responsibilities to act so that their needs are met too Some environmental ethicists such as Deep Ecologists assert that nonhuman forms of life have moral significance equivalent to humans Most people however believe that other forms of life have some moral worth but that humans are of greater moral significance Even if you think animals are far more worthy of your concern than plants or elements recognize that all animals depend either directly or indirectly on plants for food and that no creatures can live without sufficient clean water To assert that any wild animal is worthy of our moral concern begins the process of learning about the interdependence of all creatures on the habitat and food resources provided by other creatures in an ecosystem It is simply impossible to consider the wellbeing of one other creature in isolation from their environment ... blur-text-image