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



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891

Should common ethical views and approaches to environmental protection be adopted and recognized by the major world religions?







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892

Should environment trusteeship/stewardship councils be set up to defend interests of future generations?







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935

Can ethical guidelines be set up to conserve animal species through genetic manipulation ?







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937

Is an ethics body needed for regulation of the new forms of energies and fuels?







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938

Can ethical measures provide for the development of an ecological infrastructure without harming natural resources?







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952

What ethical compensation arrangements should be made for victims of climate change related displacement?







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823

What ethics based laws will help achieve sustainability?







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576

Does government have the ethical right to limit the extent to which one can choose to modify oneself, or ones offspring, through genetic manipulation or mechanical advances?










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582

Is it ethical for governments to continue to act alone or in small groups against individual enemies and rogue regimes?










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623

Do we need a more powerful UN to attack with military force when the majority of Security Council makes the decision?










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694

Is it ethical to extend restrictions on the ownership and use of weapons that apply to citizens, to nations as well?










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712

To what extent should the activities of corporations acting in developing countries be regulated by governments of developed countries?










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713

What specific ethical issues should OECD countries address for corporations operating in conflict zones, as the resource curse phenomenon in these countries is increasingly documented?










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714

What should be done to address "weak governance" zones and countries?










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731

Would it be ethical to use a state's enforcement power to induce to its citizen’s ethical and sustainable behaviors?










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732

Should we consider world institutions inaction to solve hunger as a crime against humanity?










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733

Should international institutions promote a global process of definition of "common accepted ethical principles,” i.e. a minimum standard of international ethical behavior?










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792

Is it ethical for society to limit lobbying? Are there acceptable (not too rigid, but rigid enough) ways to achieve it?










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793

Is it ethical to conduct more or less complete public surveillance in pursuit of crime worldwide?










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795

Is it not ethical to deny access to weapons of mass destruction to certain nations and firms?










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807

Is it ethical for political decisions to remain in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals - often with self-interest, and how will this inequity be countered?










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810

Is democracy, controlled only by the majority, ethical since the majority may ignore the fair rights of minorities?










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822

Is nationalism unethical?










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846

Will human rights continue to be an important ethical issue?










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896

Could humankind be made to follow the laws of bioethics?










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910

Would it be ethical to have a world government based not on hegemony of economical utility but on the generally accepted principles and rules of global ethic?










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