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CASE: EXPORTING POLLUTION TO BRAZIL
When business crosses international borders to influence nations with poorer, still developing economies, one problem that arises is that the developing nation has little to offer, but what they do have, primarily because their economy is new, and typically pre-industrial, is a clean environment, which means they may be willing to sell their environmental benefits to gain economic ones.
POVERTY AND POLLUTION
From: Moral Issues in Business 8th ed. Shaw & Barry (pp. 565-566)
It is called Brazil’s “valley of death,” and it may be the most polluted place on Earth. It lies about an hour’s drive south of Sao Paulo, where the land suddenly drops 2,000 feet to a coastal plane. More than 100,000 people live in the valley, along with a variety of industrial plants that discharge thousands of tons of pollutants into the air every day. A reporter for National Geographic recalls that within an hour of his arrival in the valley, his chest began aching as the polluted air inflamed his bronchial tubes and restricted his breathing.
The air in the valley is loaded with toxins–among them benzene, a known carcinogen. One in ten of the area’s factory workers has a low white blood cell count, a possible precursor to leukemia. Infant mortality is 10 percent higher here than in the region as a whole. Out of 40,000 urban residents in the valley municipality of Cubatao, nearly 13,000 cases of respiratory disease were reported in a recent year.
Few of the local inhabitants
Questions
1. How important is caring for the environment compared to profit and economic expansion?
-Are they equally important, or is one of them more important than the other?
2. Who bears the responsibility for setting environmental policy?Why is that so?
-Government, Corporations, Citizens, some other party?
3. Do businesses have a responsibility to protect the environment above what is required by law? Why or why not?
4. Do any of the moral theories studied thus far require that we care for the environment beyond legal requirements?
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