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SUS1501 Assignment 7 semester 2 2023 Due date 30 September 2024 Time 08:00 Am (complete questions and answers) distinction guaranteedR50,00
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Thursday, 27 June 2024, 11:04 AM
ASSESSMENT 07:
SUSTAINABILITY?
There is no conclusion to this section. I'm not going to tell you that I know the solution. Or even that I'm hopeful that anyone knows the solution. What I can
tell you is that I believe if we are to have any hope of finding a solution, we are going to have to undergo a social transformation on the kind of scale that
our predecessors underwent when our societies moved from hunter gatherer societies to agricultural ones, or when they moved from agricultural societies
to industrial ones. Major changes! And by major changes I don't mean 4th industrial revolution claptrap. In spite of all the hype that is really just the latest
version of the industrial revolution.
But that is not really what this assessment is about. So, what is it about then?
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Set the scene
To set the scene for this assessment we want you to first try and estimate your own ecological footprint.
There are probably many ecological footprint calculators on the web but we suggest this one because the data used in the graphs you have just seen
is sourced from the same site:
If this one doesn't work, you can just google "ecological footprint calculator" and I'm sure you will find another one.
Step 2: Write a comment about your footprint
Right, now that you have an idea of what your ecological footprint is, you are going to do what you have done in most of the assessments up until
now. You are going to post a comment (4 or 5 paragraphs this time) in the discussion forum below.
Sounds simple enough right? Well yes and no.
Your answer must contain all of the following parts:
Part A
You need to say something about your footprint based on what you have just read in the "Sustainability?" section. How do you feel about this result?
Part B
Next we want you to think back to your previous assessment, assessment 06. In that assignment that dealt with saving the gorilla, we asked you to
think about the essentially virtue ethics questions of: "So where do I fit in in this?"
In light of what you have discovered in this assessment in relation to your own ecological footprint - i.e. your own engagement with nature - we want
you to critically reflect on the answer to the "So where do I fit in in this?" question that you submitted in assessment 06.
Do you think that the answer might need some adjustment or are you still happy that it is an accurate and truthful reflection on your arête?
Part C - counts 60% of the total grade
Finally, the technical part is that we also want you to think about your ecological footprint from the perspective of some of the stuff you learned
about in the ethics core. In particular we want you to think back on three of the traditions:
- "Do the right thing - Deontology" - Here we want you to think about the sustainability problem from the perspective of Kant's categorical
imperative (see Kant do it!);
- “Fair’s Fair - Distributive Justice” – here you need to think about what is fair for our children - for future generations - using Rawls' Veil of
Ignorance specifically (see How to share .... John Rawls (1921 - 2002))
- "Greenies - Environmental Ethics" - we want you to consider the issues we have just outlined from an anthropocentric position specifically.
Remember we must be able to see from your use of these that you have actually understood the theory in question (the categorical imperative, the
veil of ignorance, and anthropocentric thinking). If we don't see this you will not pass this assessment.
Step 3: Comment on comments (if you like)
And I don't need to tell you this anymore but I will .... once you have posted your original contribution, why not post comments on some of the other
contributions? It may even get you some extra marks.
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