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I need you do describe any ethical considerations involved in the development and use of technologies involved in the explorations of Antarctica, and what impact does this human exploration have?

2007-03-06 15:24:55 · 2 answers · asked by Person P 1 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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Any footprint in Antarctic will last. Beans from cans from the Scott Expedition were found to be usable and edible a half century after they were cached.

Why just the Antarctic? The Arctic furnishes a more accurate model of human impact on polar regions. In fact your question of ethics apply equally to both poles.

Unfortunately its the northern polar regions that will first suffer from the stupid silly foolish avarice of humanity. Global warming will remove the polar icecap in fifty to one hundred years. When that is done, great there is more oil to burn.

Humans should not be in the Antarctic at all. It was supposed to be a free undisturbed zone on the planet but again the greed and staggering stupidity of humans propel them to exploit every possible diamond shaft on the planet.

A polar environment is a very tenuous environment. The loss of a single animal could in theory disrupt the ecological balance of the entire continent. The margin of biomass survivability of maintenance depends on a balance between the available energy in that zone.

Biomass is a term that refers to the entire combined fauna found in a specific zone. For a comparison, the biomass of all of non Ocean Antarctica is mathematically less than the biomass of all the species found in Rhode Island. The Oceanic biomass of the polar seas is more than was predicted because new species are found all the time. But the entire biomass of the entire Antarctic continental shelf would be still theoretically less than the biomass found in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean.

The only ethical option is for humans to leave Antarctica. They don't belong there.

2007-03-06 15:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by gordc238 3 · 1 0

they're greater or much less equivalent words to date as i will see. (my father replaced right into a Philosophy of ethical guidance professor and that i think of he could agree) P.S. - The 'ethical' of a tale is distinctive than 'morality' that's linked to ethics. some words have greater effective than one that ability.

2016-12-14 12:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by vasim 4 · 0 0

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