Future Global Ethical Issues (Excerpt from the State of the Future report)



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958

What are the ethical limits to the replacement of labor by technology?

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829

Is it ethical to consume only animals and plants "produced" under controlled environments and on technical production lines?

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640

Should a universal code of ethics be formulated and taught as a necessary discipline?




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847

Is a universal curriculum ethical?




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870

Should an educational model based on the principles of equality, quality, and opportunity become an ethical imperative for government?




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900

Would it be ethical to unify education in all countries in order to build a more harmonized world?




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813

Is it ethical to require an educational strategy for the teaching of values?




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579

Should there be an environmental limit on global consumption?







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581

Should society have the continued right to pollute space without control?







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593

Is it right to ignore the limits of material progress?







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617

Should countries be allowed to buy and sell environmental waste?







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657

Should states have the right to their natural resources if they are goods of worldwide importance (e.g. water, petroleum)?







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679

Do future generations have an ethical right to share in the planet’s natural beauty and resources or are these the preserve of current generations?







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693

Should we continue abandoning space garbage (defunct satellites, detached equipment, etc.) or should we plan to use space for earth's waste disposal?







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700

How can a code of ethics be created to deal with the proliferating problem of space junk?







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701

How can a code of ethics be created to deal with the proposed disposal of nuclear waste "off the planet"?







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705

Should leisure pursuits which require high usage of water (such as golf courses) or those that pollute water be outlawed?







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707

Is it ethical for the West's to produce most of the world's CO2 when those who suffer from the effects of global warming resulting are those remaining billion or so of the world's poorest?







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708

What place can/should the precautionary principle have in relation to environmental issues?







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720

What are the ethical limits to interference in the natural order?







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762

Is it ethical for farmers who use biomass for energy and thus reduce GHG to not get paid for their contribution?







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776

Would it be unethical for democratic governments not to order draconic environmental laws, when global environmental collapse is imminent?







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782

By which political, institutional, and operational means (including economic tools)] can - wild and agricultural - biodiversity be sustained in situ?







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784

Which strategies are adequate to prevent the effects of mass migrations of humans (and, maybe, animals), as induced by climate changes and environmental degradation?







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839

Is it ethical to ignore the world's needs for drinking water and to put resources into research aimed at commercial and bellicose interests?







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872

How can respect for national natural resources be balanced with the necessity of populations to have access to water sources?







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882

Will unlimited exploitation of resources be acceptable?







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