medical and parental ethics -archayah

How valid is the view that saviour siblings are ethical?

Why this topic?

Are you a younger sibling? Can you imagine being born just to save your elder sibling’s li behind saviour siblings – the topic of my EPQ. A saviour sibling is born when a couple has usually with cancer or a blood disease, and chooses to have another child through IVF, w donate stem cells and perhaps organs to their elder sibling. This topic is riveting because as it can save the terminally-ill child’s life but could mean that the saviour sibling is mistre

What did you discover?

I concluded that saviour siblings are unethical as we have a responsibility to protect all children and it is impossible to tell how the parents would treat the saviour sibling, especially if the terminally-ill child dies. The parents may treat the saviour sibling as inferior or as a commodity by forcing them to donate bodily substancesboth of which may have a detrimental effect on their physical and mental welfare.

l climbing - holly

To what extent does mountain climbing have a more negative impact on the environment than rock climbing?

Why this topic?

I have always enjoyed rock climbing and bouldering, especially on the cliffs by the beaches I visit with my family on holiday, and recently I have had the chance to take part in it more. I am also taking geography A Level, and have an interest in the ways the planet is impacted by our actions. After some initial research, it became obvious that significant causes for concern were being raised about the damage that climbing was beginning to cause to the environment, and there was clearly a distinct separation between mountain climbing, and other climbing subtypes. Due to my interest in the sport, I therefore chose rock climbing to compare it to.

NoTimeLikeNow…

I think that my question is very relevant to young people in 2023, as we are growing up with a climate crisis, and throughout our lifetimes, finding new ways to reduce our impact on the environment will be vital, in order to protect planet Earth for future generations. Therefore, I hope that by highlighting some ways that specific activities are damaging the environment, young people may be more conscious of the impacts of their small actions

What did you discover?

Throughout my dissertation, I discussed the impacts of mountain climbing and rock climbing on different factors, focussing mainly on the globally significant climbing locations of Mount Everest (Nepal side) and the Yosemite National Park (California, USA), to help to structure my debate. In the end I concluded that, to a small extent, mountain climbing does have a more negative impact on the environment, because the majority of the factors that I discussed were more significant in mountain climbing than rock climbing. For example, the volume of waste and discarded equipment left on the mountains is so much higher than on cliffs, because the expeditions are far longer (50 tons of litter has been left on Mount Everest in the past 6 decades!), and every time the snow melts, the rubbish and microplastics are naturally transported in the water systems, and to the villages below. However, in my evaluation, I also mentioned how, if the time and word count had not been restricted, then I could have compared even more subtypes of climbing, and so I may have come out with a different conclusion.