Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels
Recent years’ rapid urbanization and then rural to urban migration have created increasing demands of bricks usages in Bangladesh. However, brick industry has been largely using inefficient, dirty technology and burns woods-coal. It injects huge volume of effluent gases namely CO2, SO2, NOx, CH4, C...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Bangladesh Bioethics Society
2022-03-01
|
| Series: | Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://bjbio.bioethics.org.bd/index.php/BJBio/article/view/18 |
| _version_ | 1797198845078142976 |
|---|---|
| author | Akim M. Rahman Saadi Islam |
| author_facet | Akim M. Rahman Saadi Islam |
| author_sort | Akim M. Rahman |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
Recent years’ rapid urbanization and then rural to urban migration have created increasing demands of bricks usages in Bangladesh. However, brick industry has been largely using inefficient, dirty technology and burns woods-coal. It injects huge volume of effluent gases namely CO2, SO2, NOx, CH4, CO etc., in atmosphere. Governments, particularly developing countries have lost the ability to effectively regulate environmental issues, while at the same time corporations have gained unprecedented influence over many facets of society. On this aspect, Bangladesh is no exception. For policy guidance underpinning ethical grounds on the issue, this study analyzes the basic issues of CO2 emission from brickfields in terms of marginal damage (MD) analysis. Findings show that the marginal social costs are higher than marginal private (producer of bricks) costs where brickfields are benefiting with the expense of Bangladeshi society as a whole. As time passes by, rises of brick-prices have been causing upward trends of welfare losses where producers’ surpluses are dominating in the total surplus. This economic situation has been causing higher deadweight loss year after year. Addressing the issues, national strategies and policy actions underpinning bioethical grounds are needed. Reforestation efforts can be achieved in multi-faucets: brick-fields’ charity, government policies on planting trees and policies on motivational efforts inspiring citizens of Bangladesh. Bioethics responsibility trainings in multi-faucets are needed where government’s roles in designing program(s) can be instrumental. Motivational policy can be: i) inspiring celebration individual’s “Birthday, having 1st child in family and Event of marriage” by planting trees, ii) forcing to utilize green tech in brick kilns and iii) policies conducting academic research where financial supports are in need.
|
| first_indexed | 2024-04-24T07:06:20Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-3c91729c3edc47b1bae33773f68a6293 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2226-9231 2078-1458 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-24T07:06:20Z |
| publishDate | 2022-03-01 |
| publisher | Bangladesh Bioethics Society |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics |
| spelling | doaj.art-3c91729c3edc47b1bae33773f68a62932024-04-22T02:33:15ZengBangladesh Bioethics SocietyBangladesh Journal of Bioethics2226-92312078-14582022-03-0113110.62865/bjbio.v13i1.18Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission LevelsAkim M. Rahman0Saadi Islam1Department of Economics, Canadian University of Bangladesh, Dhaka-1212, BangladeshPublic Relations, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh Recent years’ rapid urbanization and then rural to urban migration have created increasing demands of bricks usages in Bangladesh. However, brick industry has been largely using inefficient, dirty technology and burns woods-coal. It injects huge volume of effluent gases namely CO2, SO2, NOx, CH4, CO etc., in atmosphere. Governments, particularly developing countries have lost the ability to effectively regulate environmental issues, while at the same time corporations have gained unprecedented influence over many facets of society. On this aspect, Bangladesh is no exception. For policy guidance underpinning ethical grounds on the issue, this study analyzes the basic issues of CO2 emission from brickfields in terms of marginal damage (MD) analysis. Findings show that the marginal social costs are higher than marginal private (producer of bricks) costs where brickfields are benefiting with the expense of Bangladeshi society as a whole. As time passes by, rises of brick-prices have been causing upward trends of welfare losses where producers’ surpluses are dominating in the total surplus. This economic situation has been causing higher deadweight loss year after year. Addressing the issues, national strategies and policy actions underpinning bioethical grounds are needed. Reforestation efforts can be achieved in multi-faucets: brick-fields’ charity, government policies on planting trees and policies on motivational efforts inspiring citizens of Bangladesh. Bioethics responsibility trainings in multi-faucets are needed where government’s roles in designing program(s) can be instrumental. Motivational policy can be: i) inspiring celebration individual’s “Birthday, having 1st child in family and Event of marriage” by planting trees, ii) forcing to utilize green tech in brick kilns and iii) policies conducting academic research where financial supports are in need. https://bjbio.bioethics.org.bd/index.php/BJBio/article/view/18Brickfields, effluent gases emission, causes social costs & deadweight loss, bioethical grounds, reforestation, motivational efforts of govt. policies |
| spellingShingle | Akim M. Rahman Saadi Islam Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics Brickfields, effluent gases emission, causes social costs & deadweight loss, bioethical grounds, reforestation, motivational efforts of govt. policies |
| title | Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels |
| title_full | Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels |
| title_fullStr | Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels |
| title_short | Effluent Gases Emission from Brickfields in Bangladesh: Policy Guidance Underpinning Bioethical Grounds Mitigating Emission Levels |
| title_sort | effluent gases emission from brickfields in bangladesh policy guidance underpinning bioethical grounds mitigating emission levels |
| topic | Brickfields, effluent gases emission, causes social costs & deadweight loss, bioethical grounds, reforestation, motivational efforts of govt. policies |
| url | https://bjbio.bioethics.org.bd/index.php/BJBio/article/view/18 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT akimmrahman effluentgasesemissionfrombrickfieldsinbangladeshpolicyguidanceunderpinningbioethicalgroundsmitigatingemissionlevels AT saadiislam effluentgasesemissionfrombrickfieldsinbangladeshpolicyguidanceunderpinningbioethicalgroundsmitigatingemissionlevels |