Air Pollution from Automobile Industry: Ethics and Sustainability Analysis

Assignment 3 Ethics and sustainability
analysis

Contents
Selection of one issue of global significance:.........................................................................................3
Environmental Elements:......................................................................................................................3
Social Elements:.....................................................................................................................................4
Economic Elements:..............................................................................................................................5
Ethical problems connected to global sustainability issue:...................................................................5
Discussing the ethical problem in relation to theories:.........................................................................6
Opportunities and Threats for businesses:............................................................................................7
Proposing an ethical and sustainable solution:.....................................................................................7
References:............................................................................................................................................9

Selection of one issue of global significance:
Air pollution from the automobile industry can be regarded as one of the most significant
threats to humankind which is of global significance and nitrogen oxide is an extremely
reactive harmful gas that is produced while the fuel burns at high temperature and when the
gas comes in contact with oxygen and water, nitric acid is produced and this is one of the
main causes of acid rain which have the potential to cause respiratory problems in human and
an increase lungs disease as well as destroy vegetation and plants (Zhang et al., 2017).
Environmental Elements:
In the modern industrial economy, the automobile industry plays a significant role and it
helps in shaping our modern life. But due to the increase of globalization of the business, the
automobile industry is
booming and in the year
2017, the global
automobile manufacturing
sector has manufactured
97.31 million automobile
vehicles of which 73.46
million are cars and 23.85
million are commercial
vehicles
(www.statista.com, 2018).
This is really a concern for the global environment as air pollution from the motor vehicles
continuously gives rise to air pollution with the help of nitrogen dioxide which mixes with
water as well as with oxygen in order to produce acid rain. But this is not a new issue at all as
the global environmental concern and air pollution concern started since the beginning of 13th
century while coal burning took place in London for production of energy (www.sustainable-
environment.org.uk, 2018).
But, air pollution is not only the concern that is caused by the motor vehicle industry but also
the chemical industry and various other industries that are present in the world also cause air
pollution. Air pollution is very harmful for the humankind and also the natural environment