Environmental Risk Problems and the Language of Ethics
本文提出评估环境风险解决方案的六项标准，并聚焦伦理责任标准，探讨决策者不愿使用伦理语言（即“道德沉默”）的原因，对研究企业伦理和环境决策的学者有参考价值。
In this paper we present six criteria for assessing proposed solutions to environmental risk problems. To assess the final criterion—the criterion of ethical responsibility—we suggest another series of criteria. However, before these criteria can be used to address ethical problems, business persons must be willing to discuss the problem in ethical terms. Yet many decision makers are unwilling to do so. Drawing on research by James Waters and Frederick Bird, we discuss this “moral muteness”—the inability or unwillingness to use moral language to solve moral problems—and suggest some underlying causes of moral muteness.