Read Chapter 9: Business and Environmental Sustainability in your textbook
Environmental Sustainability [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 5]
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 9: Business and Environmental Sustainability in your textbook (Hartman et al., 2021), as well as Chapters 10 and 23 in A Companion to Business Ethics (Links to an external site.) (Frederick, 1999). In addition, you may wish to watch The Complex Path to Sustainability (Links to an external site.) (TED Institute, 2018).
Businesses need to determine how to meet their responsibilities to the environment ethically. Sustainability and its principles improve on older environmental models for businesses, such as the market and regulatory approaches. In this discussion forum, evaluate these approaches to satisfying environmental responsibilities and explain the ethical importance of fulfilling such responsibilities.
In an initial post of at least 350 words and citing at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed resources,
Defend the extent to which corporations have an ethical responsibility to protect the environment from harm that may result from the organization’s products. Be sure to incorporate an ethical theory in your answer, choosing among utilitarianism, deontology, or virtue ethics.
Explain the benefits of a sustainability approach in business, with its triple bottom line, as opposed to the limitations of the market and the regulatory approaches to environmental issues.
Identify the principles of sustainability that provide ways to limit negative environmental impact. What responsibility, if any, do corporations have to ensure that their products can be sustainably produced, recycled, and repurposed?
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