Final Exam Engineering Ethics id: U1710259 Name: Ziyoda Saydakhmatova Topic #4

Final Exam

Engineering Ethics

ID: U1710259

Name: Ziyoda Saydakhmatova

Topic #4

The universe had started to formulate long time before the humanity appeared on the Earth and now the development is also taking place throughout the galaxy. No other forms of life have been identified in other planets that makes ours the only place which occupies wide variety of species in it. The amount of people along with other creatures is keeping in pace with modern developments and has reached to over 7 billion in total. This rate is increasing on a yearly basis which results in the expansion of demand for food with other kinds of sources to survive. According to the estimations of scientists, if an immediate action is not carried out, the Earth becomes invalid to be inhabited. There are split opinions regarding this circumstance among scholars. Some believe that the most preferable way to survive is to depopulate the planet and reach the balance similar to the ideas of villain Thanos in Avengers movie whereas to the point of the rest it is possible to make life better by doing different options such as creating Earthlike atmosphere in other planets and sending some people to there or experimenting devices that do not release emissions to the environment. Both opinions are discussed in the paragraphs with providing personal inclination in the end

On the one hand for Thanos and some scholars like Thomas Robert Malthus an economist in the fields of demography and political economy, the population growth is inevitable no matter how hard scientists try to improve living conditions. Thanos is in favor of the idea of wiping out 50% creatures to secure the life of the others. According to his view, since the past times countries had participated in wars which prevented the process of overpopulation in the planet and serious illnesses that lead people with weak immune system die from also acted as an aid to this action. Yet as his idea was based on random selection, the possibility of losing expert users of various fields in terms of knowledge can create additional problems after it happens. A scientist Thomas Malthus was an English cleric whose theory is to let people in lower status live in tough environments with starvation or disease and do not attempt to enhance the life conditions of their as they are the ones who are responsible for high birth rates. His attitudes towards the growth of population are combined in his book “An Essay on the Principle of Population” and his warnings have the title of “Malthusian catastrophe”. However, Malthus’ theories were proven wrong, as humans have managed to scale food production along with population.

On the other hand, modern scientists and engineers are trying to formulate new devices to give a hand to the people in order to eliminate life problems. Jack MA, the founder of Alibaba corporation considers that technologies should be based on both the environmental problems and people`s comfort. In effort to fulfill this aim he organized his new branch called Alibaba Intelligence in which scholars experiment technologies on the principle mentioned above. His team is working on a system to filter world oceans and take all the waste out of there in order to recycle for creating products. With this action he thinks the lifestyle of people can be improved and the bad effects on the atmosphere could be minimized. Another genius named Elon Musk has manufactured new types of cars with the brand of Tesla that consume electrical energy to move with zero emissions to release. His product has enabled to decrease detrimental effects of biofuel cars when exchanged with electric ones. He is also planning to make space travel possible by next decade and conducting research in his SpaceX company on converting the Mars into an inhabitable place for the population of the Earth.

Having discussed all the aspects of this problem it is possible to conclude that, sacrificing humanity to create amenity for living is not relevant choice to make the galaxy better place for inhabitation and more attention should be paid to the advances of technologies and exploration of space by supporting the attempts of CEOs like Jack Ma and Elon Musk.