introduction to ethics by william lillie pdf file

Governments and administrative systems do not make good medicine: they permit or deny it. The success of a health service depends on the ability, industry, and integrity of its staff. The 3 things needed to bring the environment and sustainable development to the forefront are investment in the UN Environment Programme collection analysis and distribution of information and integrated effort.

Direct regulation is still needed however when the market does not address the problems. Government and industry policy must include improving energy efficiency via market incentives. The US should restructure many existing environmental regulations from a command and control system to an incentive-based system. A similar investment of monies in developing countries is needed. For example the US Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II (almost 3% of US gross domestic project) resulted in increased wealth of the European nations. Yet they have at times assumed shortterm burdens to achieve longterm goals. Industrial democracies have sometimes found it difficult to overcome political constraints to longterm sustainability. Sustainable development must include all humans particularly the poor. In addition economic activity must consider environmental costs of production. We must adopt new beliefs such as humans are not separate from nature and depend on its finite natural resources. We must tighten the alliance between science and policy. Governmental and private policy must steer this revolution.

Unlike the agricultural and industrial revolutions the revolution needed to achieve sustainable development must involve a fully deliberate operation guided by foresight. Even though climactic change models have convinced many scientists of the likelihood degree and limits of environmental threats people do not understand them let alone being willing to change behavior to avert distant threats. To avert the threats of the environmental crisis most of the worlds population must change its behavior.

Introduction to ethics by william lillie pdf file