Book Review: Ethics and the Contemporary World
As governments and consumers push companies to improve their sustainability efforts, it can be challenging to keep up with the demand of the oftentimes expensive changes that sustainability requires. Luckily, advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, are helping businesses monitor and improve their facilities to not only improve environmental consciousness, but save money while doing so. This article examines how advances in AI help businesses assess and improve their sustainability through energy consumption, waste management, and water usage. As threats of climate change increase, a growing number of consumers are looking for businesses that actively support environmental efforts. As well as improving competition with unsustainable companies, sustainability efforts drastically reduce costs of business operations.
Олеся Феофилова. Свои первые венские стулья х годов я нашла у подъезда. Я живу в Туле, работаю журналистом и до года ничего не знала о реставрации мебели. Но во время пандемии привела в порядок пару тех самых венских стульев, и с тех пор реставрация — мое хобби. Я не умею перетягивать крупную мягкую мебель и менять пружины, поэтому диваны и пружинные кресла меня не интересуют.
Recent scientific, technological and political developments have changed so profoundly the world we live in that they sometimes seem to render philosophy obsolete. Yet, they have prompted new moral problems which can — and ought to — be addressed philosophically. This entertaining and approachable introduction to contemporary practical ethics dusts off the discipline by anchoring present-day concerns within the broader philosophical tradition. In 25 short chapters, renowned philosophers identify the issues at stake in a wide variety of topics ranging from global warming, genetic selection and industrial farming to plastic surgery and social media.
