Sci/362 Managing Environmental Issues

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Managing Environmental Issues Angela Williams SCI/362 July 29, 2012 Tereza Marks University of Phoenix Managing Environmental Issues In this paper, I will give a brief description of the Managing Environmental Issues simulation on the student website of University of Phoenix (2005). I will identify each of the stakeholders involved in the simulation. For each of the stakeholders, I will give a description of the ethical thinking, philosophy, conflicts, and competing priorities of each stakeholder. Last, a description of how these conflicts are understood as they relate to environmental justice issues will be given. Companies and poachers are largely destroying Rainforests. Rainforests are not only beneficial to humans but also to the numerous animal and plants species. They supply much of the oxygen humans need to survive. In addition, some of the trees and plant species within the forest provide essential components in producing medicine. In the 1970s, environmental ethics emerged. “This is because ethics was considered integral to the societal distinctions between right and wrong, and with the ethical consequences of human action” (University of Phoenix, 2005). Humans have believed for some time that they can do anything they want…show more content…
The company has annual sales of approximately $50 million. The company is responsible for manufacturing herbal remedies “for prostate cancer, prostatitis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, incontinence, dysuria, polyuria, and nycturia” (University of Phoenix, 2005). “Nearly 60 percent of males over the age of 50 in Europe and America suffer from prostate-related diseases” (University of Phoenix, 2005). For their remedies, Colney & Pitts uses the Pygeum Tree bark. One area these trees are located is in the eastern highlands of Kenya known as the Aberdares Mountains. In addition to the trees, a local tribe called the Kikuyu also inhabits the

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