Enterprise or Environment

            There is a conflict between economic development and environmental sustainability. This happens due to the impact of such development on the environment since economic development is about incorporation of environmental assets which has an impact in environmental sustainability (Great Britain., 2011). Economic development is associated with a variety of activities that bring a decline to the environment hence causing a conflict. In the course to ensure economic development among people, countries normally opt to achieve economic growth which involves cheap energy, job creation and other services for the citizens. This may lead to degradation of the environment in a number of ways. Pollution is the greatest challenge that is affecting the world as a result of economic development (Great Britain., 2011). Due to severe pollution, the population faces difficulties like ill health, disabilities and eventually death of the population. The extraction of resources in trying to develop industries causes changes in the climate which in turn leads to damages in the environment. Economic development also involves high rate of economic activity which leads to depletion of resources such as minerals, oil making it hard to deal with pollution (Great Britain., 2011).

            Environmental ethics plays a big role in ensuring that in the course of developing the economy, Mother Nature is respected and treated with consideration. Its aim is to study the relationship between the human beings and the surrounding (Thompson, 2010). This tends to exert influence on arrange of disciplines which include environmental law, ecotheology and environmental sociology. Industries are required to observe environmental regulation in the course of industrialization (Thompson, 2010). Therefore environment ethics ensures that in the attempt to foster development, humans must ensure that the environment is protected, and kept safe for human safety.

References

Great Britain., & Great Britain. (2011). The impact of UK overseas aid on environmental protection and climate change adaptation and mitigation: Fifth report of session 2010-12. London: Stationery Office.

Thompson, P. B. (2010). The agrarian vision: Sustainability and environmental ethics. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky.