In considering the BP Oil Spill, what circumstances would ethically justify a government or private company in restricting information made available to the public during a disaster? At what point might other companies have an ethical right to intervene regarding environmental disasters? Your response must be at least 200 words.

Answer with its Explanation:

Part A.

There must be a clear information sharing policy of an organization like BP Oil Spill to restrict the inappropriate operations and reduce the negligence of the organizations so that they might not effect the future and present generation. Its evident that in technologically advanced era, the flow of information is just one internet search away. So the restricting of information is mostly impossible and that the restricting of information like Oil Spill can be far much dangerous for both land and marine life. So here, clear policy of defining the type of information to be conveyed to general public would be very useful. It is also one of the best practice that sustainability stresses upon which says that the operations that undermine or compromises the needs of the future generations must be abandoned.

There must also be a recovery policy for the ecosystem that we had damaged and thanks to social entrepreneurs who are doing this job much better than most of the multinational organizations.

There are also situations where the restricting the information is allowed and includes the following situations that permits the restriction of information:

The above mention points make it clear that the information can only be disclosed if the sensitivity of the matter is lost with time. The disclosure is compulsory because now it is the ethical requirement of the company to disclose the information. The disclosure of information must include the reasons that explains the issue and its root causes. Furthermore, it must also address the reason behind the retention of information and how it was in the best interest of the nation.

Part B.

In the time environmental disaster, every single person on earth has a moral duty to help each other to assist in recovery of the damage from the environmental damage. Likewise the organizations are playing their part during current pandemic to help the world recover from the losses they had born due to virus affecting the operations of all the companies and human beings.

Following are the situations in which the organizations must play their role in the time of environmental disaster:

answer; (cash) is the best out of the above; good luck

this conflict is person vs. society

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