An Engineering Filled with Gratitude for All Living Things

This chapter examines the ethical responsibilities of engineers and scientists considering new advances in science with a distinct reflection on quantum mechanics. This thorough coverage of these new advances will assist the reader in rethinking our place in the Universe and broadening a sense of ethical responsibility for the planet. This book addresses an approach to integrating these changes dealing with issues such as global climate change and the sixth extinction. The scope of this chapter is to examine the premise that the Earth is facing a grave crisis. Engineering requires a new ethic that takes a much broader view of the profession’s ethical responsibilities. Moreover, the engineering ethic has historically been rooted in the science of the past (Newtonian mechanics). Science has changed (quantum mechanics) but the engineering worldview has not. Embracing this new science will inevitably lead to a new story of our responsibilities towards the planet.